Advice To The Next President: Foreign Policy
With the Iraq War recently ended, the Afghanistan War winding down, and a standoff over Iran鈥檚 nuclear program raising the prospect of a third U.S.
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Is the Foreign Policy Debate Irrelevant?
President Obama and former Governor Mitt Romney will meet for the third and final presidential debate Monday night to discuss foreign policy.
50 Years After Cuban Missile Crisis: Closer Than you Thought to World War III
鈥淢y fellow Americans, with a heavy heart, and in necessary fulfillment of my oath of office, I have ordered 鈥 and the United States Air Force has now carried out 鈥 military operations with conventiona
The Cuban Missile Crisis at 50
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis 鈥 those 13 days in October 1962 that were probably the closest the world has come to a major nuclear war. President John F.
Why Netanyahu Backed Down
For three years Israel鈥檚 prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his defense minister, Ehud Barak, seemed to be united in urging an early military attack on Iran鈥檚 nuclear facilities.
The Toughest Sanctions
Amid all the grandstanding about drawing a 鈥渞ed line鈥 that Iran shouldn鈥檛 cross in its uranium enrichment program, a different kind of line may have just settled the issue.
Cuban Missile Crisis Holds Lessons for Presidential Race
Next week marks the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis 鈥 arguably the most dangerous moment in modern history. During 13 harrowing days in October 1962, President John F.
Did Bibi's Bomb Bomb?
The cartoon of a bomb that Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu displayed two weeks ago at the UN has become a target of ridicule. Israeli online parodies hammered the prime minister.
Fear Factor: The Illusion of American Decline
At their conventions last month, both the Republican and Democratic parties declared that the United States is not in decline.
Energy Policy Shows Fallacy of a Domestic Debate
The presidential debate on Wednesday night is an opportunity for the candidates to discuss, exclusively, 鈥渄omestic policy.鈥 But that very division of 鈥渄omestic鈥 and 鈥渇oreign鈥 policy has always been fo
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