The state of the world
It’s more threatening to America than Biden understands
It’s more threatening to America than Biden understands
Biden has canceled yet another test of our ICBM system so as not to cause more tension with China.
Only the fact that concessions don’t actually conciliate despots
Syria is a far-away land about which we know little. But we do know this: Over the past seven years, more than a half million people have been slaughtered there, with an estimated 150 murder...
“Appeasement” gets a bad rap but, strictly speaking, the word implies nothing more than an attempt to make peace. If aggrieved adversaries can be pacified by reasonable concessions, w...
Or may I call you “Chuck”? About 30 years ago when I first met you, you were an informal kind of guy. You had recently been elected to the House from a district in Brooklyn and Queens...
Banner headlines in a prominent national newspaper read “NUKE DEAL PAVES WAY FOR NEW ERA: Sworn Foes U.S., Iran Aim To Bury Hatchet” — without sarcasm. For critics of the Iran n...
With the Iran nuclear talks entering the final stretch in Vienna, Germany’s role in the negotiations to end Tehran’s illicit nuclear weapons program has largely escaped scrutiny....
To be fair, the document signed in Geneva is not meant to neutralize the threat posed by those who rule Iran. It is meant o...
On Oct. 10, 1938, 75 years ago today, Nazi Germany formally took control of the Sudetenland, the iron-rich portion of Czechoslovakia containing most of that country’s ethnic German populati...
American officials can kill our enemies. They just can’t discuss our enemies’ beliefs.
Prominent Jews like the Harvard lawyer have spent years criticizing Obama. So, why are they endorsing him?
I suspect few readers will disagree when I say that not one of the presidential candidates, Republican or Democratic, has yet articulated a compelling campaign theme. All favor security. Not one...
Sospecho que unos cuantos lectores discreparán conmigo cuando afirmo que ninguno de los candidatos presidenciales, sea republicano o demócrata, ha articulado aún un tema de c...
Let’s be fair to Jimmy Carter. Let’s suppose he isn’t indulging in egotistical grandstanding, that he doesn’t harbor a deep-seated bias against Israel, and that he’s...
Readers of tea leaves, tarot cards and goat entrails may be able to predict the future. But prognostication is a skill few journalists, politicians, diplomats, and intelligence officials have dem...
President Barack Obama's premature Nobel Peace Prize has catalyzed a useful debate, in which the real question is less the timing of the award than what, exactly, he has won. How are we to r...
Remember Polish jokes? They're politically incorrect these days, so no one makes them. No one, that is, except President Obama. By cancelling the promised missile shield, he in effect cut Po...
President Obama unveiled the first part of his Iranian policy directly to ... the Iranian People. It was a good opening pitch, insofar as it went. But Iran is playing hardball, so the important t...
Winston Churchill: “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”