Chinese Blind Spot
Investigating Chinese surveillance is a rather lonely job. For all the dissidents yammering about dramatic arrests and torture and harvesting of organs, you can’t really guarantee publicati...
John McCain
Obama’s Detachment Policy on Syria
On Monday, the editor of the pan-Arab Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Tariq al-Homayed, penned a column that deli...
Op-eds
On Syria, Follow McCain
Here’s to John McCain, leading from the front. Last week, the Arizona senator cut through all the White House doubletalk on the Syrian uprising and demanded a more active U.S. policy, inclu...
Op-eds
Politicizing Iran’s Ties to Al Qaeda
In “Politician-in-Chief,” Steve Hayes writes about President Obama’s frustration with, as Hayes...
Op-eds
Behind the Scenes on Syria
Up until this week, the Obama administration had maintained an unequivocal posture against providing assistance to the armed Syrian opposition. To justify its position, the administration repeate...
Op-eds
Obama Administration to Congress: You’re Irrelevant
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta gave testimony in the Senate yesterday that was just breathtaking: asserting that the Obama administration believes it c...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
Free Syria
Maybe the murder of an American journalist in Syria last week will focus the American president’s mind. Marie Colvin was killed, along with a French photojournalist, when troops loyal to -P...
Op-eds
Hostage Crisis
Since last month, 19 Americans working with pro-democracy nonprofit organizations have been under investigation for trumped-up charges of operating without proper registration. On Monday, the Egy...
Op-eds
It’s Time to Tip the Scales in Syria
Obama must do more to force out the tyrant Assad
Op-eds
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...
Legislative 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
A Terrorist Released
Binyam Mohamed is ...
Op-eds
What Syria Policy?
The threat against the life of the American ambassador to Syria comes during a bad streak for the Obama administration. First was the Iranian plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United State...
Op-eds
Not Total Recall
The Obama administration is having a hard time explaining why the US ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, has returned to Washington. Despite the apparent threat against Ford’s life, the admin...
Op-eds
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...
Press Releases
Disappearing Defense Funds
Last week the Senate Appropriations Committee fully funded the Obama administration’s $407 million request to develop what some are sarcastically calling “Might Eventually Almost Do S...
Op-eds
Pawlenty’s Foreign Policy
Is he on the John McCain wing of the Republican party?
Op-eds
9/11 Plotters Are Araigned
. . . and, finally, the commissions may prove their worth.
Op-eds
De-Commissioned
Will Pentagon blunders mean the end of military trials for terrorists?