Obama administration’s Syrian engagement policy: ‘Fruitless ingratiation with despots, disregard for human rights, and predictable (horrible) results’
That’s the way Jennifer Rubin describes Barack Obama’s approach to foreign policy - and how Syria aligns with the Obami’s overall approach: “Syria Engagement, or How America Loses Its Soul”:
Elliott Abrams, former Deputy National Security Adviser, recounts the series of unilateral gestures and offerings that the Obami have served up to Syria - from [...]
Did the bleat of the lamb excite the lion?
Hillary Clinton isn’t a fool, but you wouldn’t know it from this statement:
People say to me all the time, what happened to Iran? … When President Obama came in, he was very clear that he wanted to engage, and that’s what he’s been trying to do — reaching out to the Iranian people, reaching [...]
Chatting up the Taliban, Part Three
As Michael Rubin has shown, the Clinton administration’s five-year engagement with the Taliban demonstrates the perils of substituting diplomacy for meaningful action against our sworn enemies. The U.S. got nothing from the Taliban, which refused to isolate, much less expel, Osama bin Laden. Meanwhile, the Taliban bought time for itself and for [...]
Iran Working Towards Advanced ICBM
I’m a little late coming in on the latest Iranian missile salvo, but there a few salient points still worth mentioning. First, the Sajjil-2 is a solid fuel rocket. That’s the type of power source that we use in our own Minuteman III rockets, as solid fuel is stable in flight and requires no preparation [...]
Nobel Laureate Knocked by Human Rights Groups
Eli Lake reports:
Human rights groups are beginning to question President Obama’s commitment to their issue as the administration engages authoritarian regimes, retains the option of sending terrorist suspects abroad to places where they might be tortured and puts off a presidential meeting with [fellow Nobel laureate and actual deity incarnate --.ed] the Dalai Lama….
Tom Malinowski, [...]
