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Jamie M. Fly

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Mr. Fly is executive director of the Foreign Policy Initiative. He served in the office of the secretary of defense and on the National Security Council staff from 2005 to 2009.

Jamie M. Fly is executive director of the Foreign Policy Initiative. He served in the office of the secretary of defense and on the National Security Council staff from 2005 to 2009.

Obama’s True Colors

By Jamie M. Fly October 23, 2012

Tonight, President Obama revealed his true colors. He has often pursued suspect policies couched in soaring rhetoric. And now Governor Romney has highlighted the results: A Middle East in chaos, ...

Watching the Debate

By Jamie M. Fly & Robert Zarate October 23, 2012

When President Obama and Governor Romney debate for the third and final time in about an hour now, U.S. foreign and defense policy will take center stage. In anticipation of ...

Politics & Policy

The Problem with Paul

By Jamie M. Fly & Evan Moore August 28, 2012

With the cancellation of the first night of the Republican convention in Tampa, organizers scrambled to adjust the schedule and find space across the remaining three nights for events originally ...

Following Reagan’s Eye on National Security

By Jamie M. Fly July 27, 2012

Bill Kristol and Marc Thiessen have written this week about Governor Romney’s recent assertion that James Baker related a story to him that President Reagan had decided to focus solely ...

Real Leadership on Defense

By Jamie M. Fly & Evan Moore July 24, 2012

Today, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney spoke at the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention in Reno, Nev. His speech, which followed President Obama’s address yesterday, was a much-needed argument ...

We Need Clarity, Not Contention, on Sequestration

By Jamie M. Fly & Robert Zarate July 17, 2012

In less than six months, current law requires the start of “sequestration,” across-the-board cuts that will cumulatively slash $1 trillion from defense and non-defense discretionary spending in the next decade. ...

Politics & Policy

Saying No to Sequestration

By Jamie M. Fly May 17, 2012

At a recent discussion in Washington, a Democratic strategist said that President Obama’s speeches were like a Rorschach test. You can read into them anything you want to. He was ...

Time for Obama to Stand Up for Human Rights

By Jamie M. Fly April 30, 2012

One constant of President Obama’s foreign policy has been a marked reluctance to stand up for freedom fighters, be they the masses in the streets or those who languish in ...

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The Peril of Paul

By Jamie M. Fly & Robert Zarate February 2, 2012

It has become a routine occurrence in the 2012 Republican presidential debates for the contenders to say that “anyone on this stage would be better than Barack Obama.” But is ...

Paul’s Foreign Policy Is Truly Outside the Mainstream

By Jamie M. Fly January 2, 2012

As the race to win the Iowa caucus comes down to the wire, Rep. Ron Paul’s views on foreign policy have rightfully come under attack. Paul, who proudly touts his ...