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Published May 25, 2011
Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu gets the last word in a speech to a Joint Meeting of Congress. Where does that leave President Obama?
Published May 20, 2011
President Obama's discussion Thursday of the Arab-Israeli conflict – not the core of his remarks any more than it is the heart of the instability dogging the region – managed to infuriate almost everyone.
Published May 09, 2011
Every now and then, law courts and trials are not the only appropriate venues for justice. Al Qaeda mastermind Usama bin Laden has gotten what for so long he has so richly deserved. End of discussion.
Published May 03, 2011
Washington’s relationship with Pakistan is reminiscent of the movie classic “Casablanca.” In the iconic film, a Nazi general orders the good-hearted but compromised police chief to find a pretext to close the city’s most popular café, “Rick’s.” As he shuts the café down on grounds that he is “shocked, shocked” to learn there is gambling there, a café employee approaches him with his winnings.
Published May 02, 2011
The death of the Al Qaeda leader is likely to place the organization under even greater pressure. What will happen in the short-term to the terror group? That's just one of the implications of the death of Usama bin Laden.
Published April 28, 2011
Officials say it was Leon Panetta’s role as a happy budget warrior that most attracted President Obama to him at this time and led him to tap the current head of the CIA for Secretary of Defense.
Published April 27, 2011
Fear of a Petraeus challenge undoubtedly kept Obama from naming the talented general to the job he so richly deserved – chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Ending his star-studded military career with so sensitive a civilian post would only have further enhanced Petraeus’ reputation as the nation’s best known, most experienced general.
Published April 21, 2011
The new normal comes to the Department of Homeland Security. America's new terror alert system, says Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano, is intended to give citizens more information about “specific, credible” terrorist threats. From now on, she told us, we’re supposed to be “alert,” not “afraid.”
Published April 08, 2011
Stunned by the secular Arab rebellions that have toppled some of the Middle East’s most enduring dictators, Al Qaeda and other violent Muslim extremists are struggling to capitalize on the upheavals that have reshaped the political map of the Middle East.
Published March 28, 2011
Americans want a president who is cautious and prudent, but not passive. And they want a leader who makes his goals and agenda clear.