One Year Later: Assessing President Obama’s Failed Cuba Strategy
After a full year of President Obama’s promises and diplomatic openness, Cuba’s embattled people have seen little change.
Save Freedom of Worship in the Middle East
Earlier this year, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released its 15th annual report on the status of religious freedom around the world. USCIRF’s report reaffirms what ...
Cuba in the Organization of American States?
Hijacking the agenda of the Summit of the Americas to proclaim and advance their radical visions was insufficient for the Western Hemisphere’s despotic leaders. These rogues and other apologists for ...
Colombian Crossroads
Members of Congress returned home for August recess after failing, yet again, to vote on the U.S. Colombia Free Trade Agreement. Sadly, the prospects for a vote later this year ...
Honoring Biscet
Born into Castro’s despotic regime of brutal human-rights abuse, Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet has spent nearly the last 20 years fighting for a freedom he has never known; a freedom ...
The Right to Survive
The specter of the Islamic regime in Tehran arming itself with nuclear weapons has given many officials in Washington and elsewhere countless sleepless nights. To prevent that nightmare, the U.S. ...
A Wholly Imperfect Union
Supporting or even recognizing any government in which such a terrorist organization participates would be a tremendous mistake. Such a move would constitute an unmitigated disaster for the Palestinian ...
Castro’s Step-Aside
This temporary transfer of power certainly raises expectations among those who have experienced Castro’s tyrannical rule.
Many hope that the failing health of the dictator is a sign of the weakening ...
What’s In a Name
The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia has played a small but symbolic role with regard to the Global War on Terror and our mission in Iraq. FYROM employs troops in ...
Freedom in Afghanistan
While leading a recent congressional delegation to Afghanistan, I was struck by the progress that the Afghan government is making towards establishing democracy, as well as the enthusiasm and determination ...