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Obama Has Achieved Nothing on the World Stage

No American president has spent more time abroad in his first year in office than Barack Obama. His trip to Asia this week is his 8th foreign tour, taking the total number of countries visited to 20. But what does the president have to show for all his ...

From NILE GARDINER, The Heritage Foundation,  19 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  Taliban,  Al-Qaeda

The U.N.'s Anti-Israel Crusade Continues

The United Nations has come up with yet another spectacularly biased report, this time 575 pages long, accusing Israel of "war crimes" in Gaza and "possibly crimes against humanity". The document also (far less forcefully) criticizes Palestinian rocket ...

From NILE GARDINER, The Heritage Foundation,  21 Sep 2009
Related Topics: United Nations,  Hamas,  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,  Richard Goldstone,  Barack Obama

President Obama Must Not Surrender to Russia on Missile Defense

Reports in the Polish media strongly suggest that the Obama Administration is about to abandon its plans for "third site" missile defense installations in Poland and the Czech Republic.[1] Abandoning the third site would represent a huge turnaround in ...

From NILE GARDINER, PH.D., AND SALLY MCNAMARA, The Heritage Foundation,  3 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  NATO,  Dmitry Medvedev

No Negotiation with the Taliban

There are clear signs that the Labour government in London has begun to build an exit strategy for Afghanistan based upon the premise of negotiations with so-called moderate elements of the Taliban. In the face of rising domestic opposition to the war, ...

From NILE GARDINER, The Heritage Foundation,  5 Aug 2009
Related Topics: NATO,  Gordon Brown,  Barack Obama,  Richard Holbrooke,  Al-Qaeda

Barack Obama should become a Eurosceptic

The media coverage of Barack Obama's visit to Moscow this week has overwhelmingly focused on the arms control deal struck with Dmitry Medvedev and his much-hyped pledge to reset relations with Moscow. Little attention has been paid however to the ...

From NILE GARDINER, The Heritage Foundation,  23 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  Dmitry Medvedev,  United Nations,  The Pentagon

The Invisible Secretary of State: Hillary Clinton's Failure of Leadership on the World Stage

As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton has been almost as elusive as the Scarlet Pimpernel. Her profile on the world stage has been significantly lower than that of her immediate predecessors, Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell, who were highly ...

From NILE GARDINER, PH.D., The Heritage Foundation,  17 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Barack Obama,  Council on Foreign Relations,  Condoleezza Rice,  White House

How Not to Cut Spending: More Defense Cuts in Britain Loom

This month, David Halpern, former Chief Analyst in Tony Blair’s Strategy Unit, writes in Prospect magazine that, instead of spending less on “obesity, climate change or social exclusion,” British ministers should “use tough decisions as a way of ...

From NILE GARDINER, The Heritage Foundation,  30 Jun 2009

Barack Obama’s Massive Middle East Mea Culpa

It’s never easy delivering a landmark speech before a foreign audience, and a potentially hostile one at that. Barack Obama gave a 56-minute address before a Muslim audience in Cairo that was well received and drew a standing ovation. He made some good ...

From NILE GARDINER, The Heritage Foundation,  4 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  Saddam Hussein,  U N Security Council,  Al-Qaeda

Barack Obama Must Heed the Lessons of the Holocaust

When President Obama enters the gates of the Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald on June 5, he will be sharply reminded of the evils of totalitarianism. Over 50,000 Jews and political dissidents perished at the camp before it was liberated by ...

From NILE GARDINER, The Heritage Foundation,  3 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  European Union,  Angela Merkel,  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,  Hezbollah

Barack Obama should stop apologising for America

No leader in American history has gone to greater lengths than Barack Obama to make amends for his own country. From condemnation of American "arrogance" in a speech in Strasbourg to acknowledging U.S. "mistakes" before millions of Muslims on Arab ...

From NILE GARDINER, The Heritage Foundation,  3 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,  White House,  Angela Merkel

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