Neville Chamberlain

March 13, 2024 | Clifford D. May |

The state of the world

It’s more threatening to America than Biden understands

August 8, 2022 | Eric S. Edelman, Franklin Miller

Understanding That Weakness Is Provocative Is Deterrence 101

Biden has canceled yet another test of our ICBM system so as not to cause more tension with China.

February 24, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

What’s wrong with appeasement?

Only the fact that concessions don’t actually conciliate despots

April 11, 2018 | Clifford D. May |

What’s at stake in Syria

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...

September 2, 2015 | Clifford D. May |

The Deadly Peril in Appeasement

“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...

August 12, 2015 | Clifford D. May |

Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Chuck Schumer a Letter

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...

July 27, 2015 | |

‘Peace for Our Time’

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...

June 29, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: Why Germany is the Weakest Western Link in Nuclear Talks With Iran

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....

November 28, 2013 | Clifford D. May |

After Geneva

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...

October 10, 2013 |

The Real Lessons of Munich

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...

January 24, 2013 | Clifford D. May

A Religious Taboo

American officials can kill our enemies. They just can’t discuss our enemies’ beliefs.

October 31, 2012 | Lee Smith Tablet

The Alan Dershowitz Syndrome

Prominent Jews like the Harvard lawyer have spent years criticizing Obama. So, why are they endorsing him?

June 14, 2011 | Scripps Howard News Service |

Advice for a Presidential Candidate: What Would Winston Churchill Do?

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...

June 14, 2011 | Translation of Scripps Howard News Service |

Consejo Para un Candidato Presidencial

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...

June 13, 2011 | Scripps Howard News Service

Carter’s Confusion

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...

March 24, 2011 |

An Arab Spring?

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...

October 15, 2009 |

Peace Porridge

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...

September 18, 2009 | Kathleen ‘KT’ McFarland FoxNews.com |

Obama Tosses an Ally Overboard – And We Get Zip

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...

March 20, 2009 | The Fox Forum |

In Overture to Iran, Obama Negotiates Without Leverage

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...

March 15, 2009 | Michael Ledeen Faster, Please!

The Appeasers

Winston Churchill: “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”