Category: Foreign Countries & Policy

October 14, 2012

Sacrificing Truth

Filed under: Foreign Countries & Policy - 14 Oct 2012

It’s long been practiced that American politics stop at the water’€™s edge. We stand united on foreign policy. In return, we expect the president to act in our nation’€™s best interest. And to tell us the unvarnished …

October 10, 2012

Palestine – Cutting Abbas Down To Size

Filed under: Foreign Countries & Policy - 10 Oct 2012

PLO Chairman and Palestinian Authority President – Mahmoud Abbas – continues to promote the deceptive and misleading claim that the areas lost by Jordan and Egypt to Israel in the 1967 Six Day War constituted 22% – not 5% – …

October 1, 2012

Palestine: End the Jew Hatred – End the Conflict

Filed under: Foreign Countries & Policy - 01 Oct 2012

The universal international condemnation of the anti-Islamic film “Innocence of Muslims” – whilst defending at the same time the freedom of individuals to express those abhorrent views – has come in response to the anger and violence that has broken …

September 24, 2012

President Obama’s Munich Moment

In September 1938 the British prime minister had a problem. The Third Reich’s psychopath-in-chief was scorching the airwaves in one of his trademark rants, this time about the supposed oppression of Germans living in Czechoslovakia. He threatened war unless Western …

September 23, 2012

First Amendment Under Assault

On September the 11th an Islamic horde attacked our consulate in Benghazi Libya, killing our ambassador and three others. Our State department, instead of condemning the attacks, apologized for them placing all blame for the violence on an unknown anti …

September 19, 2012

Obama’s Failures, Foreign And Domestic

Filed under: Foreign Countries & Policy - 19 Sep 2012

We as American have sadly witnessed the enhanced failures of the Obama Administration, foreign and domestic. We have been forced to recently witness and endure situations of mob rule, endorsed by societies and cultivations that interpret religionist ideologies as an …

September 17, 2012

On Libya Three Decades Ago: Obama Should Remember Reagan’s Resolve

Filed under: Foreign Countries & Policy,History - 17 Sep 2012

Ronald Reagan clashed with Libya and its dictator Moammar Gadhafi for the first time over 30 years ago. The details of that encounter must be revisited—particularly President Reagan’s sense of resolve and clarity of purpose—as once again President Obama’s foreign …

Iran Intends to Dominate Middle East, Israelis Warn

Filed under: Foreign Countries & Policy - 17 Sep 2012

Israel’s President Shimon Peres warned that Iran is planning to extend its sphere of influence across the entire Middle East. Peres said that time is running out for diplomacy and sanctions to convince Tehran to disband its nuclear program, an …

September 15, 2012

Egypt and Libya: Shades of 1979-80

Filed under: Foreign Countries & Policy,History - 15 Sep 2012

In the last 24 hours, beginning with the 11th anniversary of 9/11, all hell has broken loose in the Middle East. Our diplomatic missions in Egypt and Libya have been attacked, with the U.S. ambassador to Libya among those brutally …

September 9, 2012

Weapons smuggling from Sinai into Gaza unopposed by Egypt

Filed under: Foreign Countries & Policy,War On Terror - 09 Sep 2012

Weapons are smuggled into Gaza with relative ease by arms merchants who live in the Sinai Peninsula, an Israeli police source said last week.

While Sinai had been relatively quiet during the regime of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, his downfall last …

U.S., Mexico enter meth enforcement pact despite strained relations

Filed under: Foreign Countries & Policy - 09 Sep 2012

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration the Government of Mexico on Thursday agreed to join forces in combating the continuing problem of methamphetamine production and trafficking across the U.S.-Mexico border, according to DEA officials in Washington, D.C.

Mexican Attorney General Marisela Morales …

September 6, 2012

A More Immediate Threat

Filed under: Foreign Countries & Policy,War On Terror - 06 Sep 2012

On July 23, 2012, Syria—one of seven nations not to sign the Chemical Weapons Convention—admitted owning a stockpile of chemical and biological weapons.

September 1, 2012

Palestine – Where To From Here?

Filed under: Foreign Countries & Policy - 01 Sep 2012

Israel’s Foreign Minister – Avigdor Liberman – has written to Her Excellency Baroness Ashton – High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security “to demonstrate Israel’s goodwill, desire to build trust and sincere desire to …

August 24, 2012

U.S. to continue pouring taxpayers’ money into Palestinian coffers

Filed under: Foreign Countries & Policy - 24 Aug 2012

The Obama administration is seeking another $200 million to aid the Palestinians in the 2012 fiscal year, State Department officials said on Friday.

Palestine – Burying the Past – Faking the Future

Filed under: Foreign Countries & Policy - 24 Aug 2012

Richard Falk – United Nations Special Rapporteur on “the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967″ – provides compelling proof of how successful the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has been in its attempt to bury historical …

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