Obama Suffering From Defense Rhetoric Gap
The nation’s top military official concedes that President Barack Obama’s plan to cut the Pentagon’s budget will leave the United States with a force that assumes more risk and...
Joe Lieberman
Can EU Oil Sanctions Create a Turning Point in Iran?
The significance of international sanctions on Iran took on new prominence this week, after a group of US senators sent a letter on Tuesday to Catherine Ashton, the EU's c...
Op-eds
Foreign Policy Experts Urge President Obama to Take Action Against Assad
Foreign Poli...
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U.S. Policy in Syria
Written Testimony for the Record Contributors to this testimony included: Mark Dubowitz (FDD), Reuel Marc Gerecht (FDD), Tony Badran (FDD), Ammar Abdulhamid (FDD), Jo...
Congressional Testimonies
Towards a Post-Assad Syria
Towards a Post-Assad Syria: Options for the United States and Like-Minded Nations to Further Assist the Anti-Regime Syrian Opposition A Discussion Paper Prepared by the Foreign...
Press Releases
The Assad Regime’s Continuing Mass Murder of Syrians
The Assad Regime’s Continuing Mass Murder of Syrians: Policy Options for U.S. Response A Joint Bulletin of the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI) and the Foundation...
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A Real Syria Policy, Anyone?
Russia and China’s October 4 veto of a U.N. -Security Council resolution on Syria elicited a strong response from U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice. “The United States is outrage...
Op-eds
A Report Card for Homeland Security
Are our intelligence analysts really keeping us safer? Or are they wasting money and providing "Google-deep" information?
Op-eds
A Battle Plan to Stop Assad: Three Steps to Focus the Brutal Dictator’s Mind
Before Syrian President Bashar Assad's blood-soaked crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, Western capitals pampered the London-educated eye doctor with carrots rather than sticks....
Op-eds
As Assad’s Crackdown Continues, the West Needs to Do More Than Just Watch
If the American and European posture toward Bashar Assad’s brutal crackdown on the Syrian people could be summarized in a single phrase, U.N. high commissioner for human rights Navi Pillay...
Op-eds
Congress Should Consider Syrian Energy Sanctions
The Assad regime’s ruthlessness is on vivid display as the Syrian security forces, with Iranian assistance, continue their bloody campaign to crush a four-month long democracy uprising....
Op-eds
FDD Praises Senators for Legislation to Pressure Assad to End Repression
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The Daqduq Dilemma
He is an enemy combatant, so treat him as one.
Op-eds
Treachery
The Senate Intelligence Committee's report on prewar statements is a disgrace.
Op-eds
Por Qué Luchamos
Esta semana en el Christian Science Monitor, el teniente coronel Chris Brady argumenta que Estados Unidos debería “seguir luchando por el progreso” en Irak donde está ac...
Op-eds
Why We Fight
In the Christian Science Monitor this week, Lt. Col. Chris Brady argues that America should “keep fighting for progress” in Iraq where he is currently serving a tour of duty. “A...
Op-eds
FDD Congratulates Bipartisan Group of Senators for Iran Sanctions Bill
Calls on Administration for More Sanctions Against Iran's Energy Partners and Human Rights Abusers Washington, D.C. (May 25, 2011) - FDD congratulates a bipartisan group of Senato...
Press Releases
House Goes First with New Iran Sanctions Bill
Both the House and Senate are preparing new legislation to increase pressure on Iran, but the House fired the opening salvo on Monday with a new bill authored by both heads of the Foreign Affairs C...
Op-eds
Lawmakers Introduce Human Rights into Iran Sanctions Debate
A quartet of lawmakers have banded together to raise the prospect of human right sanctions against Iran. A press release reads, in part: The Iran Human Rights and Democracy Promotion Act of...
Op-eds
How the Obama Administration Can Get Serious About Iran Sanctions
The Obama administration made the correct decision earlier this week to impose sanctions on Belarusneft, a subsidiary of the Belarusian petrochemical company Belneftekhim, for doing business with I...