November 14, 2014

Should Obama Apologize for His Failed Foreign Policy?

The defining moment when many Americans decided that President Obama couldn’t be trusted to protect our national security came last August.  Obama had just announced on television the beheading of American journalist James Foley, a former ...

May 24, 2013

Talking Turkey about Obama

President Obama welcomed Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan to the White House last week with warmth appropriate for the leader of a strategically located ally which is NATO's only Muslim member, enjoys a booming economy, and holds elections which appear...

September 16, 2012

Death to America: The Ghost of Jimmy Carter Haunts the White House

Justice Holmes taught that, in understanding complex problems, "[a] page of history is worth a volume of logic."  In early 1979, President Jimmy Carter facilitated the overthrow of Iran's shah by Islamic radicals.  The shah was no Thomas Je...

August 13, 2012

Even The N.Y. Times Admits It: 'Obama AWOL In Syria'

When the venerable New York Times -- the elite force of the mainstream media campaign to re-elect Obama--trumpets so pithy a headline, we can suspect that something is rotten, not in Denmark but in Obama's foreign policy.  The headline "Obama AW...

April 24, 2012

Meet The Tarnished Bureaucrat Who Is Running Our Negotiations With Iran

You may be shocked when you discover who is in charge of our "negotiations" with Iran over its nuclear weapons program. British Baroness Catherine Ashton, so-called foreign minister of the European Union, has emerged as spoke...

March 12, 2012

Holding International Security Hostage to the Election Calendar

Listen to our president.  On May 18, 2009, Obama said about his demand that Iran not develop nuclear weapons: "I don't want to set an artificial deadline.  We should have a fairly good sense by the end of the year as to wheth...

January 15, 2012

Americans, Lend Me Your Eyes

Shakespeare's Mark Antony beseeched his countrymen to "lend me your ears."  Is it time to ask Americans to lend their eyes to see how President Obama's foreign policies have endangered our country? A November Gallup poll indicates that 67% of ...

September 11, 2011

Ten Years On From 9/11 Why Is NYPD Still Being Attacked?

The red-white-blue line of heroism -- arching from Valley Forge to the Alamo to Iwo Jima to New York police and firemen on 9/11 -- will be honored as long as our country exists. So how can it be that less than ten years after 9/11, the NYPD is under ...

September 11, 2010

If You Can Blackmail Yale, Why Not Blackmail New York City?

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf unashamedly told CNN that relocating the Ground Zero Mosque will proximately cause havoc: "The headlines in the Muslim world will be that Islam is under attack. But if you don't do this right, anger will explode in the Mus...

August 9, 2010

Coping with Turkey's Islamist Lurch

As Congress wakes up to Turkey's terrorist alliances, Britain's new Prime Minister made a fool of himself in Ankara. David Cameron, on his maiden official visit to the Middle East last week, proved himself to be a brazen liar or a clueless fool -- or...

June 24, 2010

The Mussolini of the Middle East Stabs America in the Back

The Middle East has its Hitler wannabe in Iranian President Ahmadinejad. His nuclear weaponization program has accelerated over eighteen months while Obama's "engagement" is being rebuffed with contemptuous defiance from Tehran. L...

May 30, 2010

Only pretending to be a serious newspaper

On May 25, the Los Angeles Times published an Op-Ed piece under the by-line of Saad Hariri, Lebanon's Prime Minister. Hariri called for submission of the Arab-Israeli dispute to binding arbitration by either the U.N. Security Council or by the so-cal...

May 24, 2010

The Istanbul-Moscow Axis of Evil

I logged over 15,000 air miles in the past three weeks, my ports of call including Moscow, Kiev, Istanbul, and London. I enjoyed opportunities to exchange views with informed leaders of government, business, and think-tanks. Changes -- many repugnant...

March 9, 2010

Obama's Iran Policy Collapses to the Accompaniment of Mockery Around the Globe

Barack Obama, in his first press conference after his election, called Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons "unacceptable." He repetitively offered Iran "engagement." He set a deadline of year-end 2009 for Iranian compliance, now uni...

January 31, 2010

Obama Talks, Ahmadinejad Laughs

Iranian President Ahmadinejad must have had a good laugh when he read the scant foreign policy section of President Obama's State of the Union speech. How did Obama face Iranian efforts to produce nuclear weapons? Referring to negotiations seeking to...

January 11, 2010

Merry Christmas from the World of Islam

With attention focused on the flagrant security breaches around Flight 253 on Christmas Day, too little has been made of the timing of the attack. Most readers will be surprised to learn that this was not the only Christmas attack on Christians. Here...

January 2, 2010

Expedite Nobel Peace Prize to Save a Judge's Life

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2010 should be shared by an Iranian doctor and a Venezuelan judge. The doctor has already been murdered. The judge's life is in danger. Expediting the awards might save her life.On December 10, Venezuelan Judge Maria Lourdes...

November 29, 2009

Why the ADL Became a Partisan Mouthpiece

The realization that political debate in a free society is often raucous accompanied my journey from work as an ACLU staff attorney to becoming National Vice-Chair of the then-respected Anti-Defamation League. This journey was inspired in significant...

October 3, 2009

Obama in Afghanistan: Will he flee?

As the burlesque of the U.N. General Assembly and the likely futility of "negotiating" with defiant theocratic Iran recede into the dustbin of history, two challenges are coming to a head that will define the Obama legacy on the world stage...

July 30, 2009

The President's Warped Foreign Policy

Escalating fallout from President Obama's castigation of a Massachusetts police officer could damage  the credibility of a leader who speaks boldly about complex foreign policy matters without showing comprehension of ...

June 13, 2009

Talking Turkey: My Own Speech in a Muslim Country

Last week, I gave my own provocative speech in a Muslim country. The occasion was a conference of the Turkish think tank ARI (Movement for Civil Society) in Istanbul, that fabulous city straddling two continents plus countless centuries. Th...

May 25, 2009

The Axis of Evil Tortures Obama

The remnant  of  the Axis of Evil delights in torturing our President .  Not just with words --  but with  carefully timed "3 a.m." nuclear detonations and launches of inter-c...

April 16, 2009

Obama Flunks the 3 A.M. Test

While President Obama was speaking in Prague about nuclear disarmament, North Korea delivered the most tellingly timed comment on The Trip. The Pyongyang rogue regime -- proprietor of a nuclear arsenal -- defiantly launched an intercontinental multi-...

February 8, 2009

Turkey's Prime Minister Leads His Country Down a Destructive Path

It is dismaying to see a country I have admired and worked for propelling itself outside the mainstream of western civilization.  Epic statesman Kemal Ataturk,  founder of the Turkish republic,  replaced religiously ordered O...

January 27, 2009

The inside story of Operation Cast Lead

The tactical successes of Israel's recent Gaza operation, based on superb intelligence, began with air attacks on terrorist targets, which were extremely accurate and caused Hamas to go underground. The second phase, the ground attack, was a well-coo...

January 14, 2009

Even Arabs Will Benefit if Israel Finishes the Job in Gaza

It is in everyone's interest -- including the Arabs -- to let Israel finish the job in Gaza. The  U.N. Security Council decreed  that the arsonist should remain free to pile incendiaries  next to  his  neighbor's house. ...

December 5, 2008

The 'Islamophobia' canard after Mumbai

Saudi King Abdullah has been urging the United Nations to pass a universal law prescribing imprisonment for criticizing Islam.  Some skeptics, including myself (notwithstanding that I twice enjoyed the King's generous hospitality in Riyadh), hav...

November 2, 2008

An Afternoon with Israel's Iron General

JERUSALEM - I am fortunate while in Israel to spend an afternoon with my friend Gen. Matan Vilnai.  He is not called "Iron Man" because -- as Deputy Defense Minister -- he coordinates defense against Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas....

October 2, 2008

Russia Suffers a Bloody Nose in Georgia

TBILISI, GEORGIA   Viewed from Georgia, Russia suffered a significant bloody nose in its August invasion. Russia dislodged Georgian soldiers and ethnically cleansed South Ossetia and Abkhazia, setting up puppet regimes in both breakaway reg...

September 17, 2008

Khrushchev's Shoe Returns to Russian Diplomacy

ISTANBUL, TURKEY --   By the shores of the Bosporus, I listen to a high Russian official utter bellicose threats, unprecedented since the demise of Communism.  The occasion was an annual Istanbul conference on regional security sponsor...

August 31, 2008

The Tanks of August

Three events in the first decade of the 21st century will be remembered as epic turning points in world geopolitics:  9/11; the Iraq War and the Russian invasion of Georgia in August, 2008.  However convulsive the consequences of the first ...

August 19, 2008

Sec. Rice Brokers Another Disaster

Condoleezza Rice -- supposedly an expert on Russia -- rushed to Tbilisi last week, persuading reluctant Georgian President Saakahsvili to sign a cease-fire containing enough loopholes for a Russian tank battalion to drive through. Rice said she ...

August 5, 2008

What Would President Obama's Foreign Policy Look Like?

Samantha Power, the glamorous Irish-born Harvard professor, was booted from her formal position as senior foreign policy adviser to Obama for calling Hillary Clinton a "monster." The candidate claims to have more than 300 foreign polic...

July 24, 2008

A Murderer Acclaimed as a Hero

Is there any place other than in the psychopathology of the Arab world that a Kuntar--freed by Israel last week in exchange for mutilated corpses of two abducted soldiers -- could be acclaimed a "hero"?   The Beirut Daily Star (or...

July 17, 2008

The New York Times and the al-Dura Hoax

Why won't the New York Times accept responsibility for repeatedly publishing a falsehood which caused many deaths? Mohammed al-Dura, a 12-year-old Palestinian boy, became an icon in 2000 when French State television ("France 2") ran agonizi...

June 17, 2008

'It Will Almost Certainly Cause More Americans to Be Killed'

The Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling last week means that terrorism detainees captured overseas have the same rights as U.S. citizens facing shoplifting trials at home.  This unprecedented expansion of habeas was not a victory, as liberal media smirke...

May 29, 2008

Barack Obama in the Carpet Bazaar

For over five years, European powers have been negotiating with Iran over its nuclear program.  The result is painfully clear:  Iran is five years closer to possessing nuclear weapons.  This is the context in which debate about negotia...

April 24, 2008

Jimmy Carter Disgraced For Many Reasons

When it came time to judge Jimmy Carter's presidency, Americans voters thundered:  Carter, receiving 40% of the popular vote, carrying  six states. With sound reasons: The prime rate had soared to 20%, inflation to 12.5% and unemp...