Posts Tagged: obama
Israeli President Peres: ‘Assad Cannot be Trusted’ to Honor Agreement on Chemical Weapons
Israeli President Shimon Peres voiced skepticism Wednesday over a Russian proposal to place Syrian chemical weapons under international custodianship. Speaking at the Israeli Navy graduation ceremony...
Poll: Only 8% of Americans See Syria as Top Issue
Syria's use of chemical weapons may further erode whatever stability remains in the Middle East and entangle Congress in a bitter dispute over whether to...
Analysts: Congressional Vote on Syria Could Prove Short-Term Domestic Boon for Obama
U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to seek authorization from Congress for a strike on Syria may be part of a more comprehensive short-term...
The Absence Of Strategic Vision
The question often raised by many is this: does the Obama administration have a cohesive strategy toward the Middle East that addresses the developments of...
Peres Backs Obama on Syria: ‘Thoughtfulness Should Not be Confused With Indecision’
Israeli President Shimon Peres believes the United States "will respond in the right way" to the Syrian government's use of chemical weapons, despite President Barack...
Obama Prepares for Week of Lobbying Congress to Back Syria Strike
WSJ - The White House is girding for more than a week of battle with Congress over President Barack Obama's plan to launch limited...
Israeli Officials Express Frustration Over Obama’s Syria Indecision
U.S. President Barack Obama's equivocation over the possibility of a strike on Syria has riled Israeli officials, Israeli daily Maariv reported Sunday. "Obama is a coward,"...
Obama’s Foreign Policy is Failing Everywhere
It's a privilege to be an American who works on foreign policy, as I have done since the late 1970s, participating in a small way...
Obama Dismisses Administration Controversies as ‘Phony’
The Hill - President Obama on Wednesday dismissed a series of controversies dogging his administration as "phony" in remarks that represented a clear shift in White...
Bolton: Obama’s Mistakes on Snowden Have Already Cost Us
President Obama's ongoing mishandling of Edward Snowden's defection highlights key failings in his dangerously flawed approach to defending U.S. national security. Whatever Snowden's ultimate fate,...
The Benghazi Playbook: Lies, Betrayal and Cover-Up
The emergence of new evidence documenting an alleged cover-up by the Obama administration during the aftermath of the Benghazi attack has accelerated the dissolution of...
Why is Netanyahu in China for Yom Yerushalayim?
This year, Yom Yerushalayim, Jerusalem Day, is observed on Tuesday evening, May 7th through Wednesday night, May 8th and celebrates the 46th anniversary of the...
The Boston Marathon Bombing and America’s So-Called Faith Privilege
The Boston Marathon bombing provoked enactment of what has emerged, since 9/11, as a ritual of political theater refined even beyond its long history of...
President Obama: Address the Decline of Values
What was most telling about President Obama's inaugural speech was not what he said but what he failed to say. He supported gay marriage but...
