New Sanctions Give Iran Nothing to Worry About
Now that the United Nations Security Council has passed a new round of sanctions against Iran, we can expect a degree of self-congratulation from the Obama administration, which has been working toward...
View ArticleReaction to UN Sanctions
Various lawmakers and groups are weighing in on passage of the pitifully ineffective UN sanctions to which Brazil and Turkey refused to agree. Eric Cantor’s statement is among the better ones: After...
View ArticleJimmy Carter: Role Model?
In his column today, Charles Krauthammer makes this point: Three Iran sanctions resolutions passed in the Bush years. They were all passed without a single “no” vote. But after 16 months of laboring to...
View ArticleCalling ‘Em Like You See ‘Em on the Middle East
James Lindsay of the Council on Foreign Relations writes of the UN sanctions against Iran: These are not the crippling sanctions that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had promised about a year ago....
View ArticlePotemkin Futbol
Truth has it all over fiction. Sports photographers captured a poignant moment at the Brazil–North Korea match in Tuesday’s World Cup play, when North Korea’s star striker, Jong Tae-Se, stood with...
View ArticleColombia: Another Obama Victim
Both the Washington Post‘s and the Wall Street Journal‘s editors rightly praise the outcome of the election in Colombia and implore the Obama administration not to treat this president as poorly as it...
View ArticleRE: Leftist Soccer Agony: U.S. Victory Equals Jingoism
For once, I need to strike a discordant note with my colleague Jonathan Tobin about soccer (or, as most of us call it, football). The real irony of the entire NPR newsroom bursting in enthusiastic...
View ArticleSoccer, Nationalism, and America
The debate today has sparked two thoughts in particular about soccer and the American left. One is that, for the rest of the world, soccer is absolutely about nationalism. People have their favorite...
View ArticleObama’s “False Narrative”
Dan Balz of the Washington Post has written an article on President Obama’s dismal standing among independents (it stands at 38 percent approval according to Gallup, an 18-point difference from a year...
View ArticleSanctions: A Hole Big Enough to Drive Anything Through
Many in the West think of sanctions on Iran as potentially involving a naval embargo — imposed in the Persian Gulf — or cargo inspections at sea. For a lot of people, there’s a mental picture of naval...
View ArticleWatching History Be Rewritten
From an AP report by Edith M. Lederer: Just ahead of Obama’s speech, Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorin sharply criticized the United States, saying that the 2003 invasion of Iraq demonstrated...
View ArticleMario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Laureate
The Nobel Prize for Literature, given to as many horrible writers as worthy ones, is now of value only for two reasons: It makes its recipient rich (now up to $1.5 million), and it causes people to...
View ArticleBlock This Sale
The bad ideas just keep coming. A few bloggers and news outlets picked up this week on the report that a Russian company wants to acquire a 51 percent stake in a U.S. uranium-mining operation. Four...
View ArticleTurkey Co-opts NATO Missile-Defense System to Hurt Israel and Help Iran
That Turkey has grown unrelentingly hostile to Israel, and cozy with Iran, is no longer news. But it is news, of the most disturbing kind, that Washington has chosen to actively collaborate in both the...
View ArticleThe Latest Excuse to Do Nothing About Iran’s Nuclear Plans
You could spot this one coming: The Obama administration is pushing to revive a failed deal for Iran to send some of its nuclear stockpile overseas in exchange for assistance with peaceful uses of...
View ArticleObama Starts to Pay Attention to India
During his first two years in office, Barack Obama has not done much to nurture the burgeoning U.S.-India alliance, which was one of the most important initiatives fostered by his predecessor. Many...
View ArticleRE: Fed’s Plan to Rev Up Printing Press Gets Thumbs Down
The overwhelmingly negative response to the Fed decision to print up $600B to buy bonds is intensifying as Russia and China joined European nations in slamming the move. This report explains: Mr. Obama...
View ArticleA More Dangerous World
COMMENTARY contributor Bret Stephens identifies the cumulative danger posed by an administration obsessed by multilateralism and possessing many false and bad ideas about international affairs: Last...
View ArticleApplying Counterinsurgency Tactics Against Criminals
Americans are naturally focused on the counterinsurgency work being performed by our forces in Afghanistan and to a lesser extent in other areas of radical Islamist activity (e.g., Yemen and Pakistan)....
View ArticleNot So Fast with the “1962” Allusions
The news that Iran is shipping Shahab and Scud missiles to Venezuela has the blogosphere going full throttle, and for good reason. The introduction of medium-range ballistic missiles in Latin America...
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