Africa vs. The Arab World: Why does Obama treat the two so differently?
Speaking in Ghana on Saturday President Obama lectured Africans on local repression, corruption, brutality, good governance and accountability. The startling...
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The Obama effect
'Could there be something to all the talk of an Obama effect, after all? A stealth effect, perhaps?" So asked...
The Obama Effect
IT must have been the viewing angle: The despots who run Iran somehow missed the halo gracing President Obama during...
What if Israel strikes Iran?
Whatever the outcome of Iran's presidential election tomorrow, negotiations will not soon -- if ever -- put an end to...
Deciphering Obama in Cairo
By and large, President Obama's address yesterday in Cairo has been well received in both the so-called "Muslim world" and...
Obama sows a Mideast whirlwind
(Jerusalem): From this vantage point, two events this week appear to be ominous straws in the wind, warnings of a...
Obama’s shrinking deterrent
North Korea celebrated Memorial Day with an underground test of a nuclear weapon reportedly the size of the bomb that...
Doomed to repeat history? Listening to James Woolsey, ‘Speaker of Truth’
This is a lousy time to have a president in the White House who is, apparently, contemptuous of Winston Churchill. ...
Born to Jihad
As Afghan president Hamid Karzai and Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari huddled with President Barack Hussein Obama at the White...
The inadequacy of international law
A short while ago I met with a group of eminent jurists who were on a fact-finding mission, examining Israel's...
Breaking faith with Israel
Will the United States sell out its strongest ally in the Middle East to cozy up to its worst enemy?...
Obama goes south: An analysis of the Summit of the Americas
For more than a half century, dating from FDR and Cordell Hull's "Good Neighbor" policies, U.S. diplomacy in Latin America...
Obama goes south: An analysis of the Summit of the Americas
For more than a half century, dating from FDR and Cordell Hull's "Good Neighbor" policies, U.S. diplomacy in Latin America...
‘The enemy is us’
Perhaps the most famous line the history of cartoons was one Walt Kelly gave his much-beloved character, Pogo: “We have...
‘Realist’ chic
This is part of an ongoing series of Frank Gaffney's special video commentary on national security and defense issues. This...
Let’s not die for timid and misguided political correctness
The fact that the latest suspected terrorist threat involves students should come as no surprise. It is the predictable result...