Critics: Obama Contradicts Himself on Middle East Strategy
Says he toppled Gaddafi to avert a humanitarian crisis, but failed to do the same in Syria by Daniel Wiser • Washington Free Beacon Recent remarks…
State Dept. counts ‘bringing peace’ to Syria as a 2015 win
By Eliza Collins • Washington Free Beacon The State Department is counting “bringing peace” to Syria as one of its wins in 2015. A boastful recap…
Obama: I Have “The Best” Strategy To Defeat ISIS, Republicans “Don’t Have An Answer”
RealClearPolitics In an interview taped Friday and relesased this weekend with NPR’s Steve Inskeep, President Obama says “the approach we are taking” to defeat The Islamic State “is one that…
ISIS is winning and Obama is at fault: Just two in 10 Americans think the U.S. is winning the war on terror
The largest percentage of Americans ever say the terrorists have the upper hand in the war on terror. Additionally, three-in-four Americans say they’re unhappy with the way the war on…
AP Poll: Islamic State conflict voted top news story of 2015
by David Crary • AP|The Big Story The far-flung attacks claimed by Islamic State militants and the intensifying global effort to crush them added up to a…
Putin Tells Defense Chiefs to Strengthen Russian Nuclear Forces
by Stepan Kravchenko • Bloomberg President Vladimir Putin ordered defense chiefs to strengthen Russia’s strategic nuclear forces amid rising tensions with the U.S. over the global…
State Department belatedly finds 1,300 emails on Anwar Al-Awlaki
By Josh Gerstein • Politico The State Department has belatedly discovered about 1,300 emails relating to deceased Islamic cleric Anwar Al-Awlaki in official accounts belonging to…
Yazidi Women Tell of Rape and Enslavement at Hands of ISIS
by Kelly Cobiella, Yuka Tachibana, and Ben Adams • NBC The grandmother lifted her face to heaven and let out a high wail. “I pray for this…
Why We Should Resettle Refugees In Their Own Lands
The refugee crisis exists because America has indulged foolish foreign policies. To get out of this mess will require wisdom, not more of the same. by Luma Simms …
No Christians: All 132 Syrian Refugees Admitted to U.S. Since Paris Attacks Are Sunni Muslims
By Patrick Goodenough • CNSNews.com Since the Paris terror attacks on November 13, the State Department has admitted 132 Syrian refugees into the United States, and…
Lessons U.S. Must Learn From Paris Attack
by Mac Thornberry • RealClearPolitics The ISIS attack on Paris has been a wake-up call for the world. A network of terrorists exploited weaknesses in Western intelligence…
Obama’s Islamic State Strategy ‘Highly Dangerous’
Analysts note that terrorist group continues to launch attacks, destabilize Middle East by Daniel Wiser • Washington Free Beacon President Obama’s containment strategy against the Islamic…
John Kerry Is a Disgrace
by Charles C. W. Cooke • National Review Ladies and gentleman, your Secretary of State, Mr. John Kerry: In the last days, obviously, that has been…
It is now or never for Obama to decide if he can lead
by Michael Goodwin • New York Post In any time and place, war is fiendishly simple. It is the ultimate zero-sum contest — you win or…
Obama’s Bad Math on Islamic Terrorism
by Josh Gelernter • National Review Obama says 99.9 percent of Muslims reject terrorism. His math is bad. Since the Paris attacks last week, a lot…