Mitt Romney

October 22, 2012 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross The Globe and Mail

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...

October 18, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal |

EU Passes New Iranian Sanctions

The European Union passed a new round of Iran sanctions on Monday, targeting the Is...

October 18, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Swiss Cheese

The EU's "strong" sanctions on Iran are full of holes, but might they be enough to prevent the U.S. going to war?

October 15, 2012 | John Hannah |

How Oil Dependence Undermines America’s Effort to Stop the Iranian Bomb

Energy issues have figured prominently in Governor Romney's campaign. Achieving "North American energy independence" has been a central pillar of the 5-point economic plan that he's bee...

October 4, 2012 | Lee Smith Tablet |

America’s Future in the Mideast

Thomas Friedman, Elliott Abrams, Walter Russell Mead, and Aaron David Miller advise the next president.

September 25, 2012 |

Give Paul Ryan His Foreign Policy Due

Eager to discredit Paul Ryan, liberals can’t decide whether to caricature the Republican vice presidential nomine...

September 24, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Obama’s Absence as Leader of the Free World

“And I am going to block out — any noise that’s out there.” With these words, President Obama ostensibly pooh-poohed on CBS’s 60 Minutes the security o...

September 21, 2012 | |

Who’s Threatening World Peace?

How did it come to pass that Israel is now widely perceived as equally culpable, if not more so, for the potential eruption of another Middle Eastern war? To hear some of America's most infl...

September 14, 2012 | James Kirchick Index on Censorship

Islam Blasphemy Riots Now Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

The United States is the world’s undisputed king of culture. No country’s film industry can rival Hollywood; no nation’s musical artists sell more records worldwide than America...

September 14, 2012 | Michael Ledeen Faster, Please! |

The Global War

Killing Americans serves several purposes in the war being waged against us (we have yet to seriously engage against our known enemies): first, it’s what the war is all about. They want us...

September 13, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal, Emanuele Ottolenghi

Fatal Arab Spring

EMANUELE OTTOLENGHI The Cairo Speech illusion may now be over. To lead, America must be feared, not loved. Much energy was invested in recent years to improve America&rs...

September 11, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn

The Terrorists Fight On

Eleven years after the most devastating terrorist attack in history, some in America pretend that the threat of jihad or Islamist terrorism has waned to such an extent that it is no long...

September 10, 2012 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Waiting for the US on Iran is Like Russian Roulette

It is no mystery that US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are not each other’s first choices for their respective jobs. Washington and Jerusalem...

September 4, 2012 | |

No Red Lines in Syria

Last week, Iran reportedly dispatched more of its Revolutionary Guard shock troops to Syria to prop up its ally. And with that the Obama administration lost another of its justifications for sitt...

August 22, 2012 | Lee Smith Tablet |

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

August 16, 2012 | Clifford D. May |

Obama’s Future ‘Flexibility’

What did the President promise the Kremlin and why isn’t that a topic in the campaign debate?

August 16, 2012 | Clifford D. May |

Obama’s Future ‘Flexibility’

What did the President promise the Kremlin and why isn’t that a topic in the campaign debate?

August 9, 2012 | Lee Smith Tablet |

Palestine’s Biggest Obstacle

Palestinians in the diaspora are thriving, so what exactly is preventing success in the West Bank and Gaza?

August 7, 2012 | |

Mitt Speaks the Truth

Before Mitt Romney even stepped back onto American soil, the media had already concluded that his overseas trip was...

August 3, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal |

How Obama is Letting Iran Win in Syria

The U.N.–Arab League joint special envoy to Syria, Kofi Annan, resigned his post yesterday, singling out the U.N. Security...