Obama’s True Colors
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
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 ...
The Problem with Paul
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
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
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
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. ...
Saying No to Sequestration
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
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 ...
The Peril of Paul
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
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 ...