Foreign Policy

Obama Unveils European Reassurance Initiative to Boost NATO

Speaking in Warsaw, Poland, on June 3, President Obama proposed the creation of a European Reassurance Initiative, a $1-billion fund that would be...

Warren Mass June 3, 2014

Obama’s “Changed Landscape”: Out of Afghanistan Into Syria

Jack Kenny May 29, 2014

The United States will continue to lead the world without stumbling into military misadventures, President Obama said in a commencement address at West...

U.S. to Keep 9,800 Troops in Afghanistan After 2014

Warren Mass May 28, 2014

President Obama announced on May 27 that while most U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Afghanistan by the end of 2014, about 9,800...

Iraq, Afghan Wars Created VA Backlog

Jack Kenny May 27, 2014

Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) picked the eve of the Memorial Day weekend to incur the wrath of veterans organizations with an "Open letter...

Obama’s Afghanistan Trip: Admin. Blows Cover of CIA’s Kabul Chief

Jack Kenny May 26, 2014

The chief of CIA operations in Kabul was identified by name on Saturday when a White House list of U.S. officials taking part...

Christie Promotes Interventionist U.S. Foreign Policy

Warren Mass May 19, 2014

Speaking to a crowd of 700 at the Champions of Jewish Values International Awards Gala in New York on May 18, New Jersey...

Deadly U.S. Drone War Creating Problems for Yemen’s President

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. May 14, 2014

The deadly drone war carried on by President Obama is creating domestic problems for Yemen's president. ...

WSJ/NBC Poll: “Anti-Interventionist Current … Sweeps Across Party Lines”

Warren Mass April 30, 2014

A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll conducted from April 23-27 found that 47 percent of Americans believe that the United States should become...

Obama Chides Critics for Eagerness to Use Force

Jack Kenny April 29, 2014

President Obama wonders why "everybody is so eager to use military force," apparently forgetting the military threats and attacks he's made against foreign...

Alan Gross, American Imprisoned in Cuba, Starts Hunger Strike

Warren Mass April 8, 2014

Alan Gross, an American contractor who has been imprisoned in Cuba for more than four years, began a hunger strike last week to...

Obama Budget Supersizes U.S. Funding for UN, Global Military

Alex Newman April 4, 2014

At a time of soaring U.S. budget deficits, brutal economic hardship for tens of millions of Americans, and unprecedented levels of federal spending,...