Dividing Ourselves in Front of our Enemies
This was to have been a clarifying moment in American foreign policy.
This was to have been a clarifying moment in American foreign policy.
Establishing American foreign policy priorities is difficult, given the number of events competing for attention. Events not under our control often dictate changes in policies and changes in the order of priorities. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has to orchestrate…
It used to be said that there was “no daylight” between the United States and Israel on the subject of Iran and its nuclear ambitions. Both countries agreed on what Iran was doing, the need to find a mechanism to…
For months, the Polish government has been waffling and haggling over the terms of an agreement with the United States to install 10 missile interceptors in Poland. It was not a small decision. While the interceptors are positioned to pose…
Some readers were surprised yesterday. “What, no military option? There’s something JINSA thinks the U.S. military can’t do?” Actually, there is very little we think the U.S. military can’t do, but there is a whole lot we think it shouldn’t…
Expelling Russia from the G-8 and suspending new partnership talks between the EU and Russia, along with support for Georgia in whatever political settlement is fashioned after the shooting stops were our first thoughts, and our second. President Bush called…
After WWII, Russia secured itself in Central Europe by force, stopping halfway through Germany only because it reached American lines. A half-century later, communism dissolved. “History is over,” the pundit said. In that giddy moment, President Clinton and the West…
There is no “Palestine” and it is a mistake for the State Department to treat Palestinian- controlled territory as if it is sovereign. Israel is the security guarantor of both Israelis and Palestinians in areas that the IDF can reach…
Over the weekend, bloody fighting in Gaza between Hamas and Fatah supporters killed at least 11 people, and 188 Fatah-related Gazans, mainly from the Hilles clan (including 22 injured), fled to the Israel-Gaza border and were rescued by Israel. Israel…
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced that he would not be a candidate in the Kadima primary election scheduled for mid-September. It is a normal parliamentary decision and has implications primarily for the longevity of the coalition government over which…