Despite the sharp charges and counter-charges about foreign policy there are no important differences on such matters between President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney. The back and forth between the candidates on international issues is largely about...
Many who have now seen creepy event video clips featuring Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) Research Director Patrick Clawson listing "crisis initiation" pretexts such as the Gulf of Tonkin phantom torpedo attacks, or false blame for the...
Since Wednesday night's presidential debate was about domestic policy, I have little to say about it except to note Romney's insistence that there must be no cuts in the military budget. None, nada, zero, zilch – this in spite of the fact that we spend more on...
If Ahmadinejad didn't exist, Israel would invent him. Thanks to Israel's gangster rhetoric of "hold me or I shoot," international attention is focused on the brutal Muslim dictatorship in Iran, allowing Israel to quietly transform itself into a brutal Jewish...
Ten years ago the debate over the Iraq War came to Congress in the form of a resolution promoted by the Bush administration. The war in Iraq will cost the United States as much as $5 trillion. It played a role in spurring the global financial crisis. Four thousand...
Even those pundits who seem to want to distance U.S. foreign policy from Tel Aviv’s demands and begin treating Israel like any other country sometimes feel compelled to make excuses and apologies before getting down to the nitty-gritty. The self-lacerating prologues...
New attacks left at least seven Iraqis killed and 15 more wounded. In Essouira, a bomb wounded four people, including a tribal chief north. On Monday, an imam was killed and four people were wounded in a previously unreported blast. In Baghdad, a national police squad...
Despite the best efforts of Georgian strongman Mikheil Saakashvili and his ruling party, Georgian voters have delivered a stunning victory to challenger Bidzina Ivanishvili, a billionaire who vowed to tamp down tensions with Russia and free up an increasingly...
