Jun 4, 2014 – , the likes of which is hardly unprecedented in US history. … Bowe Bergdahl, officials tell Fox News, as new details emerge about concerns with the deal at the highest levels of President Obama's … , with at least one soldier alleging that they were pressured to lie about the nature of Bergdahl's capture.…

Jun 3, 2014 – Since President Obama famously told us that America is no more exceptional than any other country, thus placing all nations on the … In Iran, pastor Saeed Abedini, 33, an Idaho resident, is serving eight years in prison for the crime of encouraging apostasy – trying … Ambassador Ron Prosor noted in an April 17 Wall Street Journal column, his tiny nation is the only one in the Middle East with a growing…

Jun 3, 2014 – First, the price the Taliban extorted from us is high. … Jimmy Carter negotiated with the Ayatollah's regime to get our embassy hostages out of Iran. … America has sent a message to its enemies by trading five war criminals for Sergeant Bergdahl: The nation with a preponderance of the…

Jun 19, 2014 – of 300 US special forces operators into the country. … Of course a political solution is the goal, but the country's on fire right now, with hardcore militants controlling massive swaths … And the rest is history, no matter where he tries to point the finger.…

Jun 19, 2014 – President Obama met with his national security team at the White House today to discuss the state of affairs in Iraq … “Recent days have reminded us of the deep scars left by America’s war in Iraq. … “The most important question we must be asking,” he continued, “is what is in the national security interests of the United States…

Jun 19, 2014 – The largest and most expensive embassy in the world is in Baghdad. President George W. … With terrorists on the march throughout an expanding swath of Iraq, the State Department last weekend began to evacuate “substantial … being al Qaeda, and perhaps the terrorist-sponsoring regime in Iran.…

Jun 19, 2014 – There is a common theme to the repeated messes in the Middle East. … Whichever bad choice the Obama administration prefers, it should at least level with the American people. … Airbrushing the Middle East or the war on terror also leads nowhere.…

Jun 17, 2014 – Comment: Pakistan's description of the operation suggests it is limited, with the terrorists from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan … As for cooperation with the US, Iran's head of the Supreme National Security Council said rumors and suggestions of cooperation with … Russia: Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said he was disappointed that at the UN the Western backers of the Kyiv regime - US, France…

Jun 17, 2014 – The United States is considering airstrikes against Islamic rebels with our newest ally, um, Iran. … I'm wondering if Obama ever considered treating the GOP with half the deference that he seems to treat foreign powers that wish us … It'll take us at least 50 years to undo the mess that Obama's created worldwide. That is if we can undo it at all.…

Jun 17, 2014 – Now the world is seeing the fruit of Obama's Europe-friendly foreign policy. Iraq is a charnel house. … The Taliban are resurgent in Afghanistan. The Middle East is smoldering. … the fight against the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11."…

Jun 17, 2014 – As for the terrorist threat from ISIS, for us it is neither greater nor less than it was a week ago. … The existential threat here is to Iraq. … Its survival as one nation is now in question, with the possibility it could be torn apart in a civil and sectarian war.…

Jun 17, 2014 – The same foreign policy "experts" who lied us into the Iraq war are now telling us we must re-invade Iraq to deal with the disaster … Because of the government's foolish policy of foreign interventionism, the U.S. is faced with two equally stupid choices: either pour … in resources to prop up an Iraqi government that is a close ally with Iran, or throw our support in with al-Qaida in Iraq (as we have…

Jun 16, 2014 – The United States is considering airstrikes against Islamic rebels with our newest ally, um, Iran. … I'm wondering if Obama ever considered treating the GOP with half the deference that he seems to treat foreign powers that wish us … It'll take us at least 50 years to undo the mess that Obama's created worldwide. That is if we can undo it at all.…

Jun 14, 2014 – So what's the complaint today from those who advocated the war most vigorously? We left too soon. Republican Sens. … At this stage, the best hope for defending Baghdad lies not with government troops but with pro-government Shiite militias allied with … The only answer the war supporters have ever had, since their absurdly optimistic initial predictions went awry, is to continue the…

Jun 14, 2014 – As Obama pursues “intense” diplomacy, which will probably includ at least 36 holes of golf this weekend, Iran is sending troops into … Here’s Jay Carney on how Obama ended the Iraq war that is currently going on right now: “There is no question that the president pledged … The best case, without American action, is that Iran swallows Iraq whole, while America ships them the arms to help.…

Jun 13, 2014 – Yeah, that guy is in charge of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which is leading the charge in Syria, and now Iraq. … Which, brings us to another point: How familiar are you with the map of the Middle East? … What’s it say when Iran, the nation that makes it official policy to deny the Holocaust and declare war on western culture, is the…

Jun 13, 2014 – The Iraqi Kurds have seized Kirkuk. This is the most important event in the Middle East since the Arab upheavals began in 2010. … This points to a replica of the ethnic lines in Syria's civil war, with Turkish-backed Sunni jihadis rebelling against an Iranian-backed … presence in Iraq at the close of 2011.…

Jun 12, 2014 – US embassy staff is reportedly prepping an evacuation plan if the worst should come to pass. … Given that backdrop, it's unsurprising that the Obama administration would prefer not to engage in that country at all, with the exception … and protect the last vestiges of stability that were secured at great cost by the US military.…

Jun 11, 2014 – He supported the Iraq War and says that if Iran were close to getting nuclear weapons, the U.S should attack. … Bush's failed attempts at negotiation with Iran, "negotiation based on the delusion from the get-go that Iran was ever serious about … They are not as quick to talk about the fact that Iran has a population three times the size of Iraq's -- and the Iraq War wasn't as…

Jun 10, 2014 – Congress is about to commence the Benghazi Oversight Hearings, a step in the right direction for the cause of “truth, justice … In some ways, the uproar over events at Waco was commensurate with the one surrounding events at Benghazi. … That is a tall order, especially with passions running high on both sides, but if the goal is truth, this is the only way.…

Jun 10, 2014 – When it is set against his prior action in jumping at the Joint Plan of Action to "give diplomacy a chance" in the matter of Iranian … Is our narcissist-in-chief jumping at available, but poor, deals-in-the-offing to turn the page on his own political difficulties. … What is also peculiar is the timing.…

Jun 29, 2014 – Email Ransom, above The trouble in Iraq didn’t start in 2003, or in 1990—the First Gulf War—or with the toppling … The lesson now continues: History is littered with dumb rulers. … Butting into others' conflicts with force is not a good example, and is not following the Golden Rule.…

Jun 28, 2014 – (Their success is also a function of the protracted civil war in Syria). … One golden rule of war and investment is not to double down on disaster as Hitler did at Stalingrad. … This is certainly the case with respect to the Federal Reserve's response to the financial collapse of 2008.…

Jun 26, 2014 – But otherwise, the war was legally authorized on 23 writs. … When his statue fell in 2003, most polls showed that over 70 percent of Americans agreed with the war. … But it is historically inaccurate to suggest that the Iraq War was cooked up by George W.…

Jun 25, 2014 – Iran is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. It is a major persecutor of religion. … The Washington Post earlier this month informed us of the stalling of nuclear talks with Iran: Iran says such experiments … the Great War.…