Socialism on the March
“Ideology matters again,” Robert Kagan writes in today’s Washington Post. “Autocracy is making a comeback.” The influential analyst focused on China and Russia this morning, but the big news this week...
View ArticleThe Worst Failure Isn’t Health Care
In the flurry over ObamaCare’s collapse, some have lost sight of a more serious and far-reaching failure by Obama. This report from Time‘s Massimo Calabresi observes that in addition to “his party’s...
View ArticleIran Sanctions Pass the Senate
The president in his SOTU virtually ignored the greatest national security threat of our time: the growing danger that an Islamic revolutionary regime will acquire nuclear weapons. Fortunately, the...
View ArticleAnnals of Disengagement
On Tuesday, Siemens, the German conglomerate, announced in its annual shareholders meeting that it has reduced its commercial ties with Iran. The next day, a company spokesman made that statement a bit...
View ArticleGive Green a Chance
The Obama administration is working to convince the United Nations Security Council to impose yet another round of sanctions on Iran. Those efforts have to overcome the recalcitrance of China, Russia,...
View ArticleUh Oh, Here Come the “Smart” Sanctions
Whenever diplomats use the word “smart” these days, something dumb is going on. From the START-signing ceremony, AP reports: Looming over the celebration was Iran, which in the face of international...
View ArticleAny Deal, However Meaningless
In case you were momentarily hopeful that the “agreement” with China to pursue sanctions against Iran was real or that “pass sanctions in the Spring” meant sometime soon, think again. This report...
View ArticleContainment Is Coming
Two reports today strengthen the argument of those who suspect that sanctions on Iran are too little, too late, and that they are simply another stall for the Obami – who are slow-walking toward...
View ArticleToo Busy to Enforce Sanctions
Howard Berman (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered revealing remarks yesterday during the first meeting of the Iran sanctions conference committee. Berman noted that...
View ArticleImpotent Measures Against Iran
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton won grudging praise even from the Wall Street Journal editorial board for managing to reach agreement with China and Russia on a UN Security Council sanctions...
View ArticleBeyond Sanctions
There was bipartisan praise for the sanctions resolution that emerged from the long-delayed House-Senate conference committee. AIPAC cheered the passage of the “toughest sanctions ever passed.” Its...
View ArticleBibi-Obama Presser
The presser was long on platitudes and short on specifics. To reaffirm the “special relationship” (actually a term generally used for the U.S.-British relationship, which is less than special these...
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 Beginning of the End of Swiss ‘Active Neutrality’?
Since the introduction of global sanctions against Iran last year, encompassing 33 countries, Switzerland has defied the West, including the Obama administration and the EU, by touting its “active...
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