Twenty-three years into the long war
The threat matrix keeps expanding
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Abandoning Afghanistan
The impact of America’s capitulation to the Taliban
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What Iran Has Learned From Biden’s Afghanistan Debacle
Like other adversaries, it is more emboldened, willing to take more risks, and appear less restrained by the prospect of American military power.
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Democrats Fail the Commander-in-Chief Test
Election 2020 On Tuesday, Democrats held yet another debate. And refreshingly, for once, foreign policy was actually on the agenda. Bernie Sanders came under fire for praising authoritarian leaders, Michael...
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Did you have a horrible Thanksgiving?
The blame-America-first crowd always does, and insists you should, too
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Woman of the world
President Ronald Reagan’s 1981 appointment of Jeane Kirkpatrick as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations did not meet with universal approval. Never before had a woman held that position. A...
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Another grim anniversary
The approach of an anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 always concentrates my mind. It was, astonishingly, 16 Septembers ago that a team of foreign terrorists hijacked three American pas...
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Obama’s Performance At West Point
As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama promised to bring us together and, on foreign policy, he may be making belate...
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Obama’s Syria Debacle
Secretary of State John Kerry helped to jump-start the Geneva II international conference to end the civil...
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Syria’s Pals at the Chemical Weapons Convention
With Russia on his side, Syria’s President Bashar Assad has now agreed to sign on to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), which is meant to eliminate chemical weapons from the world once...
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The Great Collision
For most of those who were so hopeful when the Great Arab Revolt downed the dictator Hosni Mubarak two years ago, the travails of Egypt’s fledgling democracy have been depressing. Many in t...
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A Nasty Piece of Work
A tawdry new book accuses the late Christopher Hitchens of plagiarism—and worse.
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Jeane Kirkpatrick Goes to Tahrir Square — Two starkly Different Visions of the Arab Spring
Thirty-three years ago, Commentary magazine published an article by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick that stands as one of the most influential essays in the history of American foreign policy....
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Jeane Kirkpatrick’s War
It was against totalitarianism. And it’s far from over.
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Jeane Kirkpatrick’s War
It was against totalitarianism. And it’s far from over.
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Lose LOST
The Law of the Sea Treaty requires surrendering sovereignty and paying taxes to international bureaucrats and dictators.
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Did the US-Turkey Alliance Toss Israel Under the Bus?
Last week in Istanbul, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hosted the first U.S.-sponsored Global Counterterrorism Forum. The event brought representatives...
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What Would the Gipper Do?
An American president in the 21st century would do well to study the Reagan Doctrine of the 20th century.
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Totalitarian Temptations from Carter to Obama
I keep having flashbacks to Jimmy Carter. The Cairo speech was in many ways a throwback to Carter’s famous “we are now free of...
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Will Europe Break from Its Pro-Assad Course?
Berlin — Syrian president Bashar Assad’s ongoing destruction of the country’s pro-democracy movement has catapulted Europe into the spotlight, since the EU has unique financial...