The State Department motto, “Diplomacy In Action,” has always seemed vainglorious, and after seven months of Joe Biden at the helm, a rebranding seems in order. In light of the amateurish job it played in evacuating Afghanistan, a more accurate…
President Biden wanted to give a self-congratulatory speech on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on America. Instead, the debacle he created by leaving American citizens behind in Afghanistan left him walking around in a daze at Ground Zero…
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell was back home in Kentucky last week, and he said something which was wrong. Not factually, per se, but as a matter of political strategy, the Turtle blew it. Here is McConnell’s quote: The president…
Americans have pretty short attention spans on matters of national security and foreign policy. We can focus on a real crisis — like Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal — but once we’re assured that the crisis is over, our attention drifts….
For the 20th anniversary of September 11, 2001, the Taliban flag will fly over Kabul. It is shocking to behold. This is not what anyone expected in November 2001, when U.S. troops removed the Taliban after a five-year period when…
Poland said last week that its ambassador to Israel will remain in Poland after Israel pulled its ambassador from Poland. The moves are tangible signs that diplomatic tensions between the two countries are escalating following Poland’s passage of a law…
Friday marked the first anniversary since Israel and the United Arab Emirates issued a joint statement supporting normalized relations in the Abraham Accords. Since then, the Trump administration brokered three more normalization accords between Israel and Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan….
The column appearing in this space on Thursday of last week had not yet envisioned the rapid acceleration of our strategic and military cataclysm in Afghanistan. It brings little pleasure to your author to see so vivid a demonstration of the…
The State Department’s announcement Tuesday of a sanctions waiver that will allow Iran to access blocked funds in Japan and South Korea was the latest in a string of decisions indicating that President Biden’s foreign policy team is afflicted with…
