Foreign Policy in Focus

Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann attributes President Obama with “laying the table” for the Arab Spring.

Earlier this month, Rep. Joe Walsh and 30 co-sponsors issued a resolution supporting Israeli annexation of the West Bank.

U.S. cluster bombs continue to kill and maim impoverished Laotians, but the war criminals responsible have never been brought to book.

Until there is a change in the Obama administration’s policies, the president has little credibility in preaching to the world about the importance of peace.

Both the United States and Israeli believed their wildernesses — and those that inhabited them — needed to be tamed.

If North Korea isn’t about to collapse, then policymakers must stop complaining and deal with it.

The Pentagon’s increasingly unconvincing denials that Agent Orange was stored on Okinawa prevents veterans from receiving the medical care that they desperately need.

According to Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri’s interpretation of Sunni Islamic law, Muslims who support a tyrannical regime or an occupying force are fair game for al Qaeda.

The author of Tropic of Chaos talks about India, China, and the mentality of the armed lifeboat.

The Land of Israel caucus is urging the Israeli government to respond to the Palestinian Authority’s bid for statehood by formally annexing all Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

Politicians wage war, rages the poet, but they don’t pay the price.

The Oslo Accords produced nothing but settlements and suffering.

Turkey is winning friends and influencing the Middle East, but its Dale Carnegie approach doesn’t extend to Israel.

To Washington, hospitality shown by the Haqqani network toward al Qaeda is probably another reason for the U.S. to remain in Afghanistan.

High-profile fiascos like Operation “Fast and Furious” are a drop in the bucket of the War on Drugs debacle.

“Price taggers” are Israeli settlers who retaliate for IDF removal of Israeli settlers from the West Bank by attacking Palestinians and IDF property.

The international community, particularly the United States, is pursuing a dual-track policy that encourages the very warlordism that is pulling Somalia apart at the seams.

In the heart of San Francisco, a newly unveiled mural draws attention to the plight of two-thirds of migrant youth who are left out of the conversation on immigration reform.

Special Envoy Tony Blair has surprised with his nimble and adaptive diplomacy over Palestinian statehood, whereas President Obama is still rigid and adamant.

The Obama administration looks particularly bad, having spent so much diplomatic energy throughout the Arab Spring pledging to realign U.S. interests in the Middle East with American values of freedom, justice, and dignity.