Blame for Benghazi Goes Deeper Than a Conspiracy
Many conservatives suspect that the U.S. State Dep...
Susan Rice
The Last Liberal: The Legacy of Joe Lieberman
In January 2004, the New Republic endorsed Joe Lieberman for president. By this time, recriminations against Democrats who had supported the Iraq War (or, in the parlance of the American...
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Russia, Wannabe Superpower
Will Putin’s ban on adoptions finally help U.S. officials grasp the nature of Russia’s political leadership?
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Lost in Washington? The Disappearing Director-General of UNESCO
I know, I know — the news of the hour is UN Ambassador Susan Rice. But there’s plenty of interesting commentary right now about Rice (including her own op-ed in the The Washington...
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The U.N. Tilt to Terrorists
As the attacks out of Gaza continued, Israel pleaded. The U.N. ignored it.
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Who Politicized Intelligence on Benghazi?
During...
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Ambassador Rice, Designated Non-Expert on Benghazi
Finally, during his first press conference in eight months, President Obama has confirmed it was specifically “at the request of the White House” that on the Sunday after the Sept. 11...
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A 2016 Mideast Dispatch
In this report from the future, the U.S. pulls out of the Gulf as the Saudis cozy up to Avigdor Lieberman
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Benghazi and the Missing Obama 9/11 Timeline
The story of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack in Benghazi has been evolving for more than seven weeks now, in its many and oft conflicting variants, and the questions keep multiplying. Amid the offi...
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Obama Out to Lunch at the UN
At last week’s grand gathering of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, one of the Obama administration’s worst fumbles was largely unreported by...
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How Orientalism Shaped Obama
The White House’s response to the anti-Islam video is proof of the enduring influence of Edward Said’s ideas
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Obama Lets Russia Get Away with Murder
The policy is feckless; the ‘reset’ is a failure
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No Sanctuary for Assad
As we go to press, Bashar al-Assad seems to be losing Damascus, as he has lost much of the rest of the country. Reports last week suggested the Syrian president might already be in Latakia, the d...
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Defensive Propaganda
Of all the uprisings of the “Arab Spring,” the Syrian revolt has been the one arena where pro-regime information warfare has been a central element in the ongoing conflict. While the...
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Impotence Abroad
Hillary Clinton says that the Obama administration can’t do anything about Bashar al-Assad. They can’t make him step down, and they can’t stop him from massacring women and chil...
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Staying on the Sidelines in Syria
While the door-to-door massacre of women and children by pro-government militiamen in Houla last week has sparked international outrage and talk of a “tipping point” in Syria, the Oba...
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Obama’s Syria Policy: Ask Putin
Some have argued that last week’s massacre in the Syrian city of Houla, where Bashar al-Assad loyalists killed more than a hundred people, a third of whom were children, may in time come to...
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The Whole World Is Watching
Yesterday, the White House’s Atrocities Prevention Board held its first meeting. Chaired by NSC staffer Samantha Power, author of...
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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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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...