Obama’s Moral-Inversion Problem
Jen, your posting about President Obama’s discussion with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev is spot on. It tells us a great deal about Obama’s approach to international affairs generally and human...
View ArticleThe Scud Saga Continues
Michael Young, the opinion editor of the Beirut Daily Star, has a fine column parsing the latest developments on Syria, Lebanon, and the Obama administration. He confirms the interpretation I made...
View ArticleDennis Ross Joins the Obama Cult of Linkage
Prior to this administration, Dennis Ross was an experienced negotiator who tried valiantly to reach a comprehensive peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians at Camp David. Watching the...
View ArticleEgypt Gets Rewarded for Repression
As I noted earlier in the week, Hosni Mubarak has extended the country’s emergency laws for yet another two years, confident that he’ll pay no price for continuing his reign of thuggery. Boy, did he...
View ArticleGOP Says “No” to Syrian Engagement
Josh Rogin reports: Twelve Republican senators wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Friday to let her know they intend to block the nomination of Robert Ford, whom President Obama has named to...
View ArticleTurkey or Israel?
Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner isn’t torn in choosing sides between Turkey and Israel. He writes an op-ed that explains: It comes as no surprise to anyone that the default position for nearly all of...
View ArticleRE: RE: What Is Obama Up To?
The reaction to the report regarding an international investigation of the flotilla and then the confirmation from the administration that it is searching for some type of international element have...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Clueless. Tom Friedman has made a career — a lucrative one — ignoring the less-flattering side of certain regimes. So the obvious is always a revelation (“here he is, sojourning among the Turks again,...
View ArticleAnother Questionable Appointee, Another Recess Appointment
Obama is using the recess appointment again. Recall that is how he got the SEIU’s lawyer on to the National Labor Relations Board and how he got Donald Berwick past the Senate’s scrutiny. (“‘Senate...
View ArticleWhat Happens When the Talks Fail?
It is a measure of how badly the Obami’s approach to the Middle East has failed and how little the Israelis trust Obama when, as Josh Rogin reports, the Israelis make it crystal clear how little they...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Stu Rothenberg doesn’t think much of the Dems’ Chamber of Commerce gambit: “This is what we call the political version of ‘jumping the shark’ — a desperate-looking charge that a campaign or a party...
View ArticleCampaigning on Iran
Josh Rogin has been all over Democrat Alexi Giannoulias’s claim that Rep. Mark Kirk didn’t have anything to do with the Iran-sanctions bill. Rogin has Giannoulias dead to rights: But according to...
View ArticleIsrael, Iran, and Senate Races
To his credit, Ron Kampeas reverses course and supports Mark Kirk’s push-back against the assertions made by Democratic surrogates that Kirk had nothing to do with the sanctions bill. It seems as...
View ArticleThe Farce That Is ‘Reset’
Josh Rogin reports: The Obama administration is ignoring, and thereby enabling, the Russian government’s gross abuse of human rights and its gutting of the country’s democracy, according to Russia’s...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Terrible news: Carly Fiorina is hospitalized. Rotten outlook for the Dems from Charlie Cook: “The Cook Political Report’s pre-election House outlook is a Democratic net loss of 48 to 60 seats, with...
View ArticleRE: Wishful Thinking, Again, by the Gray Lady
Not all reporters are as driven by ideology and ignorant of the conservative movement as is the New York Times. Others have not ignored the obvious conclusion that today, conservatives as a group are...
View ArticleMorning Commentary
Concern is growing over China’s advancing military capabilities. As Secretary of Defense Robert Gates met with civilian leaders in Beijing today, Chinese bloggers and news agencies produced photos that...
View ArticleJames Baker Keeps Digging
Josh Rogin’s interview with former Secretary of State James Baker is teased at the top of ForeignPolicy.com’s home page with the headline: “The Realists Strike Back.” The Star Wars reference is...
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