Post Archive
March 5, 2014
Back to the Confines of History
Americans occasionally indulge a certain progressive notion about world affairs: that humanity has become so enlightened and sophisticated as to have outgrown its brutal and...
Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Putin Problem
Hillary Clinton wasn’t wrong to point out today the loose similarities between Vladimir Putin’s rationale for aggression in the Ukraine and what Nazi Germany did...
An Alternative to the Two-State Solution
Talk of managing, as opposed to solving, the Israel-Palestinian dispute has become increasingly fashionable in these years of a faltering, and at times failed, peace...
Obama’s Afghan Strategy Helps Putin
Vladimir Putin is Machiavelli. He waited until he had a strong hand and he played it. President Obama and his European counterparts might hem and...
Neo-Con Derangement Syndrome and Putin
These are hard times for liberal foreign policy analysts and pundits. The collapse of American credibility abroad in the last year after President Obama’s Syria...
Hugo Chavez, One Year On
Today marks the first anniversary of Hugo Chavez's death, and the world's tyrants are mourning appropriately. The Russian President Vladimir Putin took a short break...
Senate Auguries Get Worse for the Dems
Charlie Cook, a greatly respected election analyst, has some very bad news for Democrats. No matter how you look at it, the House seems out of...
Speaking out Against Injustice
Last month I wrote a piece urging Christians to speak out against the rising persecution of gays overseas, including (but not limited to) harsh new laws...
Iran’s Gaza Arms Shipment and Obama’s Middle East Diplomacy
The news that Israel has intercepted an Iranian shipment of arms headed for Gaza has been overshadowed, along with just about every other foreign policy...
Obama Wasn’t Alone Misreading Putin
Blame for the Ukraine mess lies with Russian President Vladimir Putin. But, the failure to recognize Putin’s true character has infected American officials under both...