From Telegraph.co.uk: The US secretly agreed to give the Russians sensitive information on Britain’s nuclear deterrent to persuade them to sign a key treaty, The Daily Telegraph can disclose. Information about every Trident missile the US supplies to Britain will be given to Russia as part of an arms control deal signed by President Barack [...]
From The Heritage Foundation: There was a time when the U.S. government boldly supported democratic movements and spoke out unabashedly in favor of political and human rights. It wasn’t even that long ago—under the Bush and Reagan Administrations, actually—but it seems like eons. Consider President Obama’s comment in the State of the Union speech that [...]
From CNS News: Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said Friday that President Barack Obama “basically doesn’t care about” foreign affairs, considering them ancillary to his domestic agenda. He said he thinks Obama’s view of the United States’ role in the world is comparable to that of failed presidential candidate Michael Dukakis. [...]
From The Heritage Foundation: Hundreds of Egyptians determined to drive President Hosni Mubarak from power spent all last night in Tahrir Square to keep the military from taking over the plaza. Today marks the seventh day of unrest in Egypt as the U.S. State Department began chartering evacuation flights for thousands of U.S. citizens stranded in [...]
From The Heritage Foundation: From the outset of the Obama presidency and the emergence of the Obama Doctrine, the similarities between this Administration and that of Jimmy Carter have been striking. Like Obama, Carter trumpeted soft power and international institutions as the means to solve the most perplexing foreign policy problems. The programs of both Presidents hinged [...]
From The Heritage Foundation: The Middle East was meant to be the crowning achievement of the Obama Doctrine. Once in the White House, President Obama focused laser-like on a “charm offensive” with Iran. When voices rose against the regime in Tehran in the wake of a disputed national election, Obama offered virtually no support for the cries [...]
From The Heritage Foundation: Before the State of the Union address, Heritage Foundation scholars laid out five foreign policy and national security commitmentsthat needed to be in the speech. The President scored about 1 out of 5. The speech did nothing to dispel concerns thatthe Obama Doctrine just does not make the grade. A Commitment to [...]
From NewsMax.com: President Barack Obama’s red-carpet treatment of visiting Chinese President Hu Jintao has failed to sweep away growing alarm over China’s no-holds-barred push for military and economic dominance, with one leading conservative expert charging Wednesday that the president’s over-the-top coddling of the Chinese amounts to “appeasement.” “Cooperation between our countries is good for the [...]
From Fox News: It was a strange way to kick off the Martin Luther Kingweekend. But last Friday night, President Obama slapped hundreds of Cuba’s political prisoners’ right in the face. That’s when the administration announced it will make it easier for Americans who support Castro’s government to send money there and visit the island for propaganda [...]
From Telegraph.co.uk: The Obama administration is not known for its pro-British track record, but this is by far the strongest indication yet that the current White House has little regard for the Special Relationship and its unique role in modern American history. During a White House photo-op with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, President Obama had [...]
From NewsMax.com: Russia’s legislature says the New START nuclear arms treaty ratified last month by the U.S. Senate restricts the U.S. from building and operating missile defenses against nuclear attacks. President Obama says the opposite: that the treaty “places no limitations on the development or deployment of our missile defense programs.” There may never have [...]
From Michelle Malkin: Saudi King Abdullah bravely shunned the vastly superior universal healthcare system in his home country in order to come to the United States for medical treatment. Now he’s recovering in his own wing of the hospital and administration officials are being dispatched to make sure he’s enjoying his stay. All this time we [...]
From Telegraph.co.uk: The United States’ president flew 13 hours across the world only to be unable to meet the Afghan president face-to-face on his three hour visit because helicopters were grounded by high winds and low cloud. Mr Obama instead staged a video conference with Mr Karzai just hours after leaked cables suggested American diplomats [...]
From The Heritage Foundation: President Obama’s flying visit to Lisbon this weekend resulted in a mixed bag of results. On a practical level, NATO made big strides in fashioning the transatlantic alliance for the 21st century. On a personal level however, President Obama did not succeed in turning this weekend’s summits into ones that prioritized [...]
From The Heritage Foundation: The proponents of President Barack Obama’s New START agreement with Russia are getting more desperate the more votes they lose. The latest sad act comes from the office of Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) who catalogs the fantastic claims of his colleagues: “Delaying a vote on the New START Treaty into next year is [...]
From The Heritage Foundation: In his last gasp effort to rush his New START agreement with Russia through the Senate, President Barack Obama again invokedthe name of President Ronald Reagan from the White House yesterday. Three times President Obama cited Reagan as justification for ratification of New START. But while President Reagan did negotiate and sign [...]
From Telegraph.co.uk: Preident Barack Obama has promised Dmitri Medvedev, his Russian counterpart, that he will push the United States Senate to ratify the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) nuclear weapons treaty this month. Republicans are sceptical of the treaty and will be more heavily represented in the new Congress that begins in January, so [...]
From Right Wing News: I’m not sure how this is going to stop the seas from rising and start the healing of the Earth If President Barack Obama is not yet convinced that his international star power has faded, his next round of transatlantic summitry should clear up any lingering doubts. Coming off a marathon [...]
From NewsMax.com: * Major outdoor speech, large crowd expected * Obama popular in Indonesia, where he lived as child * US and Indonesia to announce new partnership on trip By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will visit Indonesia’s largest mosque and make a major outdoor speech directed at the global Muslim community [...]
From Newsmax.com: American Jews, among the nation’s most reliable liberal voters, are likelier than ever to give Republicans a long hard look in upcoming elections, as enthusiasm wanes for President Barack Obama and his Democratic Party. Unless Democrats succeed in rallying under-motivated base voters — including African Americans, young people and Jewish Americans — for [...]