Elliott Abrams Quotes
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Sari Nusseibeh is a man without a country.
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For 22 years, Bandar bin Sultan was Saudi Arabia's influential, irrepressible ambassador in Washington.
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People are entitled to believe the government is constantly lying to them, but it isn't.
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The ultimate goal is to change Syria's behaviour on a variety of issues - on its interference in Lebanese internal affairs, on its support for Palestinian terrorist groups that oppose the Palestinian Authority, on, most importantly, acting as a land bridge between Iran and Hezbollah, where Hezbollah gets all its arms.
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Pinochet took power in a 1973 military coup that the United States supported.
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America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom.
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What Israel wants is peace with - and the acknowledgment of - all the Arab countries.
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When a deeply sympathetic American president asks for concessions and compromises and appears able to cajole some from the Palestinians, which was the Clinton/Rabin and Bush/Sharon combination, Israel must respond.
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Both Bibi and Obama realize that they are going to have to face the problem of Iran together.
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The way for the Palestinians to get a state is to go ahead and build it.
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At Guantanamo Bay, we could create a West Berlin, a free small city within the Communist nation that could trade freely with the U.S. and elect its own officials.
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In 2007, early in the improbable presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the young first-term senator began a series of foreign-policy speeches that seemed too general to provide a guide to what he might do if elected.
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After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism.
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Israel bombed the Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007. What the Syrians did in response, nothing. Israel has killed a number of terrorist leaders in Syria. Response? Nothing.
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The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads.
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Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.
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For many societies, the journey to modernity has been painful and costly.
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Cheney's memoir is not about 9/11, or solely about Bush's administration, but about his entire life and political career.
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I personally would not talk to a Jew for Jesus.
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The Obama administration rarely demonstrated the ability to shift gears and change policy in its first year. Even in the face of historic events such as the continuing demonstrations against Iran's regime, it stuck devotedly to prior plans.
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Scandinavia is boring. People living there apparently have little to do. And as European history teaches, when there is nothing much to do, you may as well amuse yourself by attacking the Jews.
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Israel and the Palestinians had been at the table together for decades until the Obama/Mitchell/Rahm Emanuel decision to demand a total end to Israeli construction froze not the settlements but the diplomacy.
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For decades, the Arab states have seemed exceptions to the laws of politics and human nature. While liberty expanded in many parts of the globe, these nations were left behind, their 'freedom deficit' signaling the political underdevelopment that accompanied many other economic and social maladies.
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The failure to set standards for Palestinian conduct hurts the cause of peace.