How About Leading from the Front?
According to recent news reports, the Romney foreign policy team is trying to figure out what the presumptive Republican candidate thinks America’s role in the world should be. He’s b...
Kofi Annan
Has America Given Up?
Last week, U.S. President Barack Obama unveiled the latest artful attempt at avoiding responsibility to prevent genocide. With his newly created "Atrocities Prevention Board," the president has b...
Op-eds
Damascus via Moscow
Despite its admission that the UN-backed Kofi Annan plan in Syria was failing,...
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Russia’s Strategic Clarity in Syria
Russian foreign policy scored another victory last week with the passage of UN Security Council Resolution 2043...
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Washington Washes Its Hands of Syria
Following the fiasco of peace envoy Kofi Annan’s plan and the monitor mission to Syria, all eyes are on the White House to see what its response will be. After a meetin...
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‘Look World’
The White House says the ceasefire in Syria is "fragile"—but there is no ceasefire at all.
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Assad’s Violence Continues
Here's video from Homs, documenting yet more violations of the Kofi Annan-brokered Syrian ceasefire that the Obama ad...
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What Obama Must Do in Syria After the Failed Annan Plan
A Joint Bulletin of the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI) and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) The Assad regime’s brutality against the Syrian people continues unabated,...
Press Releases
It’s Time to Add Syria to Kofi Annan’s Long List of Failures
It should have raised red flags when both Syria and Russia approved of Kofi Annan’s February 23 appointment as the Uni...
Op-eds
Passivity and Incoherence on Syria
Has the Obama administration abandoned its previously stated policy of regime change in Syria? Following the trajectory of Washington’s diplomatic choices, now culminating in the enthusiast...
Op-eds
Obama’s About-Face on Syria
In August, the president called for Bashar al-Assad to step down. But the U.S. hasn’t sent arms to the opposition.
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US Tells Turkey to Back Off Syria
In a previously unreported turn of events, it has now come to light that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in her meeting with Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu last month...
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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...
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Where’s the Moral Urgency About Syria?
On March 28, 2011, when President Barack Obama addressed the nation to explain U.S. forces’ involvement in operations over Libyan skies, he made a compelling moral argument. In his...
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Goldstone Returns
Richard Goldstone’s anti-Israel bias could once again have grave results.
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A New Job for Kay
When David Kay recovers from his weapons hunt, there's another Iraq-related quest I'd like to send him on. It's time a top intelligence team went scavenging for the real numbers on...
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Beyond Farce
The following is not the outline of a rejected screenplay by an aspiring Hollywood writer trying to outdo 24. Nor is it product of a freshman political science student's imagination, concoct...
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Closet Case
The U.N.'s Worldwide Inventory Problem
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Would a President McCain Have Invaded Iraq?
A doubter's analysis.
Op-eds
Bad Faith Actor
In the pantheon of United Nations causes, Africa by many measures occupies a preeminent role. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon has described “the African challenge” as “the highest...