France Derails Iranian ‘Sucker’s Deal’
Well into last weekend it looked as though Iran was going to win the latest round of negotiations — by a knockout, not on points. Secretary of State John Kerry had flown to Geneva to sign a...
Jimmy Carter
The Carter and Reagan Approaches to Iran
U.S. and Iranian diplomats are slated to begin direct bilateral talks to...
Op-eds
Fight the Blackmail
Kick out North Korean diplos
Op-eds
How to Beat OPEC
OPEC is a conspiracy in restraint of trade.
Op-eds
How AIPAC Is Losing
Chuck Hagel will be secretary of Defense, and Iran will go nuclear. So much for an all-powerful Israel Lobby.
Op-eds
Spooky Sex: Inside the Randy Culture of the CIA
"A cock has no shame.” That’s what it said on the little plaque on the door of the espionage instructor. He’d been discovered a few nights earlier going at it with a female juni...
Op-eds
Google Bamboozled by North Korea?
As if there isn’t enough trouble in the world, the executive chairman of Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, has taken it into his head to visit North Korea. Schmidt is touring the world’s lea...
Op-eds
Does the GOP Need a New Foreign Policy?
Can the Republican Party survive without coming to terms with the Bush-Cheney years?
Op-eds
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....
Op-eds
Benghazi and the Missing Obama 9/11 Timeline
The story of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack in Benghazi has been evolving for more than seven weeks now, in its many and oft conflicting variants, and the questions keep multiplying. Amid the offi...
Op-eds
American Exceptionalism and Its Discontents
The U.S. has unique responsibilities. Is that so hard to understand?
Op-eds
Romney Takes Aim at Obama’s Narrow Foreign Policy Advantage
Although conventional wisdom among pundits holds that President Barack Obama enjoys significant foreign policy advantages over challenger Mitt Romney, a recent Pew Research Center poll suggests t...
Op-eds
A 40-Year US Embassy Crisis
The murders in Benghazi are the latest in a string of attacks on American diplomats to go unanswered by the US
Op-eds
Why Romney Won’t Strike Iran
The three factors that explain why a Republican president is no more likely to stage a pre-emptive attack
Op-eds
Engaging Fundamentalists
Given the growing strength and electoral triumphs of fundamentalists in the Middle East, many in Washington fear that the administration just can’t handle Islamists. Egypt’s Muslim Br...
Op-eds
Jeane Kirkpatrick’s War
It was against totalitarianism. And it’s far from over.
Op-eds
Jeane Kirkpatrick’s War
It was against totalitarianism. And it’s far from over.
Op-eds
To Topple Assad, Unleash the CIA
Turkey and even Iraq's Kurds would help Syria's rebels if the U.S. showed it is serious.
Op-eds
One More Lesson From Shamir
Jonathan did a great service to our readers in his eulogy of Yitzhak Shamir....
Op-eds
Dishonor and War
I wonder what the Atrocities Board would say about the dreadful betrayal of freedom in China. Only...