From today’s diary entry of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: Ah, the Americans. When it comes to our nuclear weapons program, they leave us with only good choices! On the one hand, I can drag out the talks beyond this month’s latest deadline because the desperate Americans certainly will agree to keep talking. That’s …
(CNN) – Desperately pursuing a nuclear deal with Iran, scrapping old positions and offering new concessions at a mind-boggling pace, the Obama administration has lost sight of what this regime represents and why the United States and its allies have focused on its nuclear program to begin with. For more than a decade, U.S. leaders …
The world spins out of control at a dizzying pace, with chaos spreading across the Middle East and U.S.-led global order deteriorating elsewhere, all of which leaves Washington looking confused and tentative. In the Middle East, the Islamic State group expands its footprint in Iraq and Syria, Iran extends its reach into Yemen, Hezbollah flexes …
“It will be difficult to trust Netanyahu in the future,” senior U.S. officials told Israel’s Channel 2 after the U.S.-Israeli dustup over House Speaker John Boehner’s invitation for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress, which neither Boehner nor Netanyahu coordinated with the White House. Even Israel’s strongest U.S. supporters admit that Netanyahu can be …
With the United States understandably focused on Islamist threats to the civilized world, Russia’s Vladimir Putin continues to whittle away at the post-Cold War architecture of global relations by ignoring his commitment to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty and boosting support for Russian-backed rebels. Putin’s efforts to undermine Ukraine, coming on top of his annexation of Crimea …
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“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a Socialist,” German pastor Martin Niemöller famously observed about his nation’s intellectuals during the Nazi rise to power. “Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a Trade …
WASHINGTON – Though they preside over the world’s most important nation, our leaders in Washington can be startlingly oblivious to the audiences beyond our shores that watch and listen closely to whatever we say or do. That’s the only rational explanation for why – 13 years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 – …
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