Is America supporting Hamas?
How did the US end up on the wrong side of the equation? It is surely clear to everyone, except the Obama administration it seems, that if peace is to have a real chance Hamas must be disarmed and Gaza must become demilitarised
- 3 August 2014
America’s retrencher in chief
It's time for the same Obama who spoke so eloquently of a post-partisan era, to shelve the politics and formulate a proper response to the ongoing debacle in Iraq
- 23 June 2014
Where is the Cavalry?
A world without the US as global policeman will collapse into chaos. Many do not like talking about it like that, but it's true
- 19 June 2014
Obama’s abysmal legacy: Eight incompetent years?
From the Veterans to Obamacare to the IRS to Benghazi and more, Mr. Obama seems intent on having words like “disaster” and “incompetence” become synonymous with all eight years of his presidency
- 17 June 2014
Obama's broken window: Claiming Obamacare to be a success
Are we really supposed to applaud the fact that a small fraction of the US population has been coerced to sign up for Obamacare?
- 10 April 2014
We're all ashamed of Obama the dunce on Ukraine
There was a time when Obama was thought to be some kind of intellectual. Oh, dear. He's the quintessential dunce on foreign affairs. Who wants to put their name next to his now?
- 7 March 2014
The West is led by the weaklings the Left wanted
It is not clear what the Left is complaining about over items such as Ukraine and Syria. In Britain, Europe and the United States they all swooned over Barack Obama. They got the weakling they wanted. So, what's their problem?
- 2 March 2014
Losing India: Surely not an option, even for Obama?
Obama's foreign policy is helping enemies and harming friends. India could be a tremendous ally for generations to come. Obama must not be allowed to "lose India"
- 10 February 2014
Obama's dismal, Europe-style jobs legacy
The key to prosperity is small government and free markets. To the extent the U.S. becomes more like France and less like Hong Kong, it is doomed to get anemic economic performance
- 6 February 2014
France gets the Islamist threat better than America
France's policy against Islamist advancement abroad presents a stark contrast to the chronic indecisiveness, amateurism, and lack of strategic vision of the Obama Administration
- 24 January 2014
Any chance at all of saving Obama's presidency?
It's not just Obamacare, the rollout of which has been a disaster. He's in domestic stalemate on almost everything else. He's lost on foreign policy. His State of the Union address this month is his only hope. But is there really any hope at all?
- 6 January 2014
Obama's 2013? Appalling! Could 2014 be better?
This year has not been good for President Obama. Dr. James Boys takes a look at Obama's stunning 2013 policy fumbles, which look even worse in light of the promise brought by his re-election barely one year ago. From domestic to foreign policy, it's been something of a nightmare. How could 2014 possibly be worse?
- 27 December 2013
Cheering crowds in Tehran, and Obama's delusions
If Obama does have a coherent foreign policy it is one of non-intervention, and fear of military entanglements. Certainly the US, as Saudi Arabia has made clear, is no longer a leader in Middle Eastern affairs
- 26 November 2013
Obama's Iran deal and a pattern of incompetence
Obama's limited experience and lack of serious interest in anything other than getting the US out of foreign wars was always going to create some serious shortcomings in US foreign policy
- 25 November 2013
An Iran deal brokered by EU's Catherine Ashton, former apologist for communism, has to be suspect
UPDATED: The lavish praise over the Iran nuclear deal being heaped on EU foreign policy supremo Catherine Ashton, who failed to back the West during the Cold War, is itself a signal we should be deeply worried
- 24 November 2013
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