Iran to Samba with Brazil Next Week
November 19, 2009 | 07:41 AM | 2 Comments
Plenty of ink is being spilled this week over President Obama's trip to Asia. Looming is another key head of state visit. Iran's Ahmadinejad is set to visit Brazil next Monday. The...
read more »While America Bargains in Good Faith with Rogues...
November 11, 2009 | 02:02 PM | 0 Comments
Remember when North Korea was building a nuclear reactor in Syria right in the middle of diplomatic negotiations over its weapons program? That is, until Israeli war planes struck. Call...
read more »No Turkey for Sudan's President
November 09, 2009 | 06:07 PM | 0 Comments
Good news. On Friday, I posted ("No Turkish Delight") that wanted-for-war crimes Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir was set to visit the pivotal nation of Turkey today. ...
read more »Turkey's Political and Social Trends are Troubling
November 06, 2009 | 05:53 PM | 2 Comments
It's a long-time member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, it has been pushing hard to join the European Union, it has been viewed as a model for secularism in the Muslim world, and it's .......
read more »Violent Clashes Mark 30 Year Anniversary of Iran Hostage Crisis
November 04, 2009 | 10:12 PM | 4 Comments
Thirty years ago, the U.S. Embassy in Tehran was stormed by radical Islamists. Fifty-two Americans were held for 444 days. The regime marks this date each year with rallies, "death to...
read more »Joint Meeting Envy
November 04, 2009 | 01:40 AM | 1 Comment
A few times a year, Congress sits in a "joint meeting" to hear from a foreign leader. (You can get a list of recent guests here.) Part personal seal of approval, part testament...
read more »No Senegalese Surprise
October 30, 2009 | 08:56 PM | 2 Comments
"It wasn't a bribe." That's what officials of Senegal claimed, in so many words, after it came to light that an International Monetary Fund official vacating his post in the west...
read more »House Moves (Slowly) on Iran Sanctions
October 29, 2009 | 12:37 AM | 2 Comments
On Wednesday morning, the House Foreign Affairs Committee I sit on finally passed the "Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act." It sailed through, but faces a long and winding road...
read more »Border Security: A Key Reason Why I Have Endorsed Meg Whitman
October 28, 2009 | 12:00 PM | 22 Comments
The following is a RedCounty.com EXCLUSIVE:
In my time in Congress, I have made safeguarding our nation’s borders a top priority. An unsecured border puts our nation at unacceptable...
read more »Mugabe's Grip
October 27, 2009 | 09:00 PM | 0 Comments
Since a power sharing agreement was brokered between Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF and Morgan Tsvangirai's opposition MDC earlier this year, at least conditions in Zimbabwe's prisons...
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