Foreign Policy

Is anyone surprised by Russia and China’s veto of the Syria resolution at the United Nations Security Council over the weekend?

January 2013 could see the swearing in of a new president who will inherit a number of foreign policy challenges from the Obama Administration.  Over the course of the next few months, this column will take a look at some of these challenges and offer recommendations.  We begin with Afghanistan.

Developing effective policies to deal with entrenched dictators around the world is not easy.  However, a dictator’s death gives us a chance to take our policy off cruise control.  We should do that by being realistic about the incoming leader, refocusing on our long-term goals, exploiting opportunities to hasten the ultimate outcome, planning for the regime’s fall, and ensuring that the regime can’t hold our policies hostage. 

In Martin Luther King, Jr., America had its national conscience.  A voice for the poor, the oppressed, the repressed, the disadvantaged, the discriminated and the hopeless. 

Throughout my lifetime, as a younger man, and now, as the father of two children who are about the same age as I was during the time that King walked the Earth, I still find his wisdom as enduring today, as I did then.

The year 2011 has been a reflection of all that is good and bad that encompasses human behavior and human events.

We saw remarkable kindness and joy in the actions from those who serve our nation on the front lines of public safety – men and women who put their own lives and safety on the line to preserve the peace and protect our communities from those who seek to do us harm.

WASHINGTON – American Action Network Chairman Norm Coleman today issued the following statement in reaction to President Barack Obama’s comments on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

There is no denying that Iran is a country full of bad actors. The leadership of the nation is filled with petty tyrants, ruthless dictators and clerics who use their religion to mask the brutality of the regime.

What the Iranian government does within its country is of concern to anyone in the world who cherishes liberty and human freedom. The fact is, its government oppresses its people with fear and worse underscores that it is a regime without legitimacy.

Obama Ducks War Powers Act. President Obama refused to comment on the constitutionality of War Powers Resolution, and declined to speak to the Administration’s failure to consult with Congress on Libya. Instead, he recycled comments about the limited scope of the operation, the lack of American boots on the ground, and the absence of any U.S. casualties.  Of course the War Powers Resolution references none of these conditions.

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Ill at ease in his Commander-in-Chief role, President Obama walks an uncomfortable line, trying both to appease his liberal base and to flex just enough muscle to appear strong on national security. The result has been long periods of hand-wringing followed by awkward, constrained interventions with arbitrary limitations that make victory far from certain. Just look at Libya. And far from shaping public opinion on these matters, Obama seems a victim of it.

Five Foreign Policy Questions That Should Have Been Asked During Last Week’s Debate, and Their Answers

By: Lorianne Woodrow Moss