Mar 19, 2014 – What is downright dismaying is how the West's surprising and bloodless victory in the Cold War left us ill-equipped for the world … For many, the understandable hope was that once the Cold War was behind us, a new era would be ahead of us. … The contrast with Russia and China (not to mention Iran and Saudi Arabia) is amazing.…

Mar 15, 2014 – Once again a popular vote, this time in newly captive Crimea, is staged -- but Tsar Vladimir took no chances with the wording of the … And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. … Who says the Cold War is a thing of the past? Except pollyannas like our president and secretary of state.…

Mar 29, 2014 – The military’s primary mission is not just to win wars but also to prevent war. … The 1991 Persian Gulf War is an example of how military spending saves lives. … Further, with technology becoming faster by the millisecond, we no longer have the luxury of time when the next war arrives in order…

Mar 28, 2014 – At 35, Putin was a rising star in the elite secret police, the KGB, of a superpower with a worldwide empire. … With the disintegration of the USSR, Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova were soon gone. … Russia had lost its border with Iran, Turkey and the Middle East.…

Mar 22, 2014 – With Vladimir Putin’s seeming success in rolling over Crimea and pushing aside the Ukrainians, President Obama is talking tough … Now, Moscow is rising anew. This is not the first time the Russians have had the chance to take Joe Biden’s measure. … And Claire Berlinski is right in saying that Biden’s record is surely known to the leaders in the Kremlin.…

Apr 3, 2014 – After a brief lull, some of the people who beat the drums for war in Iraq -- and have done likewise for Iran -- now propose that we … France in case of war with Germany. … During the Cold War, the U.S. deterred Moscow by drawing bright red lines and backing them up with massive forces and willing allies…

Apr 1, 2014 – As Reagan said, "History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap." … At least for now, no nation could be so foolish as to believe that a potential fight with the United States would be cheap. … 3) Western Culture: If the entire population of Venezuela, Iran, or South Africa were here in the United States and all of us were…

Apr 1, 2014 – Is the Republican Party's Middle East policy up for bid? … Impresario: Sheldon Adelson, the Vegas-Macau casino mogul whose fortune is estimated at $39 billion -- 8th richest man on the planet … One such man is Jeb Bush, son and brother to presidents, who was the prize bull at Sheldon's cattle show.…

Apr 19, 2014 – The latest from the White House is that it has "overwhelming evidence" that Russia is now fomenting unrest in eastern Ukraine … The Cold War is definitely back on, only this time unilaterally because the West has yet to respond to this series of outrages in any … was the end to the Cold War, the nuclear arms race, and, along the way, the Soviet Union itself.…

Apr 17, 2014 – This seems to be the only operation. There is no civil war in eastern Ukraine. … What is happening is evidence of stubborn unwillingness by the Kyiv authorities to establish a dialogue with Ukrainian regions, which … the same and neither is the end state, at least up to this point.…

Apr 15, 2014 – Moreover, the prime motivator of a half-century of sacrifice in a Cold War that cost us trillions and 90,000 dead in Korea and Vietnam … Japan's response is not to reassert the divinity of the emperor. … At the end of the Cold War Francis Fukuyama predicted that we were approaching the "End of History," where liberal democracy would…

Apr 12, 2014 – Such is the magnitude of the scandal that a red-faced and snarling Senator Patrick Leahy is now chairing hearings on Capitol Hill where … But against the U.S. attempt to foil it. No. This is not your father’s cold war. … What really “makes no sense at all” is Senator Leahy’s hypocritical carping during the hearings and to Andrea Mitchell--who, by the…

Apr 30, 2014 – President Obama, in following the FDR playbook, has used sanctions with countries like North Korea, Iran, Libya, Syria and now Russia … Obama should realize is that Russia, unlike Japan, is not some isolated island in the South Pacific where the primary trade is raising … In addition, this is not 1940 and the final outcome isn’t at all guaranteed like it was then.…

Apr 29, 2014 – But the cumulative effects of the Palestinian terror war that began after Israel offered the PLO statehood at Camp David in 2000, the … failure of the 2005 withdrawal from Gaza, and the 2006 war with Lebanon have brought about a situation where the Israeli public is … government is keeping the US at bay.…

Apr 22, 2014 – Syria's horrific civil war rages on, with the (unofficial) death toll rising by the day. … At the same time, opposition activists say the Syrian air force is attacking the country's biggest city, Aleppo, with barrel bombs, … accordance with the interim deal the Obama administration struck with the anti-American fanatics in Tehran.…

Apr 22, 2014 – The Supreme Court will decide the case soon, and I surely hope the Ohio law is overturned. … What he didn't tell us was the other stuff he and his team were really up to: They wanted to scare the bejeezus out of the other dictators … So I hope and pray the Ohio law is overturned by the Supreme Court.…

May 6, 2014 – So by funding the PLO’s PA, which just united its forces with theirs, the US is subsidizing Iran’s terror network. … The hard truth is that while American isolationism is bad for the US, it isn’t necessarily bad for Israel. … – was notable because the US government is training and financing the Palestinian forces that would be directing the terror war.…

May 6, 2014 – It is, asserts the magazine, "the question haunting its allies." … I would have is, why is it that everybody is so eager to use military force after we've just gone through a decade of war at enormous … It is something of a paradox that while most Americans want us to stay out of Syria -- "somebody else's civil war," said Obama -- and…

May 2, 2014 – The US responded to the aggressive move by recommending that its allies comply with China’s dictates. … One thing that Obama did have the time do was signal to the Philippines that the US is no longer a reliable ally. … the US in contending with Iran’s illicit nuclear weapons program.…

May 2, 2014 – that they have been asking us for, for all sorts of reasons including the lack of surplus stocks….Involving a third party is the next … Pakistani Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif attended the parade at the invitation of Saudi Crown Prince Salman, who is also … Iran is the obvious intended audience for the Saudi military display.…

May 2, 2014 – He went to Manila to reassure the Filipinos, who threw our Navy out of Subic Bay at the end of the Cold War, that America will be there … What Tokyo, Seoul and Manila get out of their alliances with the United States is easy to see -- the security of a superpower's pledge … But why is the defense of Europe seemingly more important to us than to the Europeans themselves?…

Oct 26, 2012 – If elected president, Romney said he would work with our allies and arm the insurgents to topple Assad because Syria is the only partner … Iran has in the region and is arming Assad to gain strategic control in the Middle East. … The problem with Obama is his narcissism gets in the way of him doing his job.…

Oct 25, 2012 – By the end, the essential question raised by the debate should have been clear: Which candidate is living in the real world we've … In the world his presidential challenger inhabits, along with the rest of us, this administration continues to be caught by surprise … Then when there were dissidents in the streets of Teheran, the Green Revolution, holding signs saying, 'Is America with us?'…

Oct 25, 2012 – , even at the expense of the welfare of the Palestinians in Gaza. … Lebanon-US: The State Department said today that the US believed it is time for the Lebanese people to choose a government that will … Comment: The US apparently is supporting President Suleiman's efforts to effect a change of government in the parliament, most likely…

Oct 24, 2012 – The manner in which talk of going to war with Iran is being bandied about this election cycle, might lead an observer to conclude … Romney have pledged not to enter into war lightly, the facility with which the topic of war with Iran continues to be raised, leaves … Let us hope that those beating the drums of war, and who have grown impatient with measures other than war, remain in the minority…