When President Obama declared that we should try diplomacy with Iran before war, it was fascinating, and a little disconcerting, to watch…
1. A clear objective: ending the dictatorship: As the world is drawn to the meeting of the Friends of Syria in Tunisia, it remains at a…
Citing an escalating dispute over islands in the East China Sea, The Economist warned last week that “China and Japan are sliding toward…
China’s president, Hu Jintao, greeted 2012 with an important essay warning that China was being battered by Western culture: “We must…
The war in Iraq was a strategic miscalculation and the single greatest blow to American power and prestige since Vietnam. I supported the…
The true victors of the Cold War were visionaries like Vaclav Havel, Lech Walesa, and Yeltsin as well as the peoples of Eastern Europe. But…
Over the last two centuries, prominent Americans have described the United States as an "empire of liberty," a "shining city on a hill,"…
THE UNITED States has been the dominant world power since 1945, and U.S. leaders have long sought to preserve that privileged position.…
President Obama should take a page from Ronald Reagan’s playbook in winning the final inning of the Cold War. Obama can challenge President…
Terror attacks on innocent people have continued around the world since 11 September 2001, but not on the scale of the 2001 attack on the…