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Two notable events in the news this week showcase the Obama Administration’s foreign policy.  First, the Taliban’s top military commander, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, was captured by Pakistani authorities at a madrassa near Karachi.  Here the Administration’s efforts to cultivate ...Read more

Again and again during the course of his campaign for President, Barack Obama said that Afghanistan was the just but neglected war. He said it was the principal front against Al Qaeda. He said it was the war we ...Read more

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb. – Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Islamist Fascism is today just such an incendiary bomb, ...Read more

Over the weekend General Stanley McCrystal, reporting from Afghanistan, was on the big screen at the White House Situation Room asking for more troops. He offered the President options for additional American forces ranging from 10,000 up to 40,000. ...Read more

President Obama and his advisers are right to realize that they are at a perilous crossroad in Afghanistan. The path they take from here will determine the landscape of American foreign policy going forward, it will impact world events ...Read more