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Dealing with ISIS
What Price? What Stakes?

Sound policy requires more than just tactical evaluations.

Obama’s Middle East Diplomacy
Allies Raging Against the Dying Light

President Obama believes that a nuclear deal with Iran could produce “a new geopolitical equilibrium.” So far, our allies in the Middle East aren’t buying his assurances.

Foreign Policy Adrift
Middle East “Stability:” Do We Care? Should We?

The problem with President Obama’s unprecedented “hands-off” policy for the Middle East.

U.S.-Israel Relations
Alone Among the Nations?

President Obama’s antipathy to Israel may lead the U.S. to turn on the Jewish state. In doing so, it would be following Europe down a dangerous path—dangerous not only to Israel, but to the U.S. itself.

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Wait It Out
Obama’s Real Strategy for the Islamic State

Last year President Obama told the UN that the U.S. and its allies would “dismantle” and “destroy” ISIS. Now he says ISIS will destroy itself…“ultimately.”

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