Late last year ominous reports from Iraq indicated that government forces were gradually losing the initiative in the northern and western parts of the country against an al-Qaeda affiliate know…

“The United States is, and remains, the one indispensable nation.” From that starting point, the President launched a defense of his foreign policy at West Point on May 28. US…

In his April 29 op-ed column for the New York Times (www.nytimes.com/2014/04/29/opinion/when-wolves-attack.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss),  David Brooks wrote the kind of foreign-policy piece that used to appear regularly during the early Cold War…

The April 17 US-European Union-Russia-Ukraine “joint diplomatic statement” on Ukraine reads pretty reasonably.  It condemns “extremism” of all kinds, calls for disarming illegal groups and their vacating all illegally seized…