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President Dwight D. Eisenhower grappled with topics like relations with Iran and stability in Iraq during an era fraught with delicate policy challenges, newly declassified documents show.
When President Barack Obama chose Hillary Rodham Clinton to be his secretary of state, skeptics foresaw trouble: a clash of ego and ambition, a conflict of policy priorities between former campaign rivals.
President Barack Obama has gone abroad and gored an ox — the deeply held belief that the United States does not make mistakes in dealings with either friends or foes.
President Barack Obama says he wants a foreign policy that values listening to and cooperating with other nations.
The Obama administration promises sweeping changes in American foreign policy, and some U.S. adversaries are nibbling the bait.
President Barack Obama emphasized a desire to build stronger working relationships with Russia, Germany, France and Brazil in telephone conversations Monday with his counterparts in those countries.
President George W. Bush, making his final visit to the State Department, said Thursday that the U.S. should confidently engage the world with the "transformative power of freedom and liberty."
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who touts her state's proximity to Russia as part of her foreign policy experience, has not met with Russian leaders or delegations, negotiated any Russian issues or visited the country, according to an Associated Press review of records from the governor's office.
Like no other candidate, John McCain has linked his campaign for president to an unpopular war — and to a lifelong focus on foreign issues that many voters ignore.
Based on his Senate history, Barack Obama as president would likely push to expand human rights and reduce poverty abroad using cooperation rather than confrontation. If foreign events permit.
Hillary Rodham Clinton characterized rival Barack Obama on Monday as rash and inconsistent on foreign policy issues. Shifting to foreign policy after two days of hammering the Illinois senator over their differences on health care, Clinton paired two of Obama's campaign statements to support her conclusion.
Turmoil in Pakistan has moved foreign policy to the forefront of the presidential campaign in the U.S., a potentially unwelcome development for two Republican former governors with thin credentials on world affairs.
Even though public opinion is overwhelmingly on their side, Democrats are winding up the year with little accomplished on the military and foreign policy issues that helped propel them to power in the last election.
Democrat Barack Obama said Tuesday the nation's foreign policy challenges call for a new leader who will worry more about doing the right thing than how it will look.
Mike Huckabee, who has joked about his lack of foreign policy experience, is criticizing the Bush administration's efforts, denouncing a go-it-alone "arrogant bunker mentality" and questioning decisions on Iraq.
Democrat Barack Obama, confronting claims that he's light on foreign policy, surrounded himself Tuesday with heavyweights who said his differences with rival Hillary Rodham Clinton and others are just what the country needs: A new leader willing to talk with America's enemies and become a better friend to struggling nations.
Democrat Barack Obama called for ridding the world of nuclear weapons Tuesday and offered his early opposition to the Iraq war as evidence of sound judgment that trumps his lack of Washington experience.
Democratic Barack Obama on Thursday defended controversial foreign policy statements he's made recently, saying presidential candidates must challenge conventional Washington thinking.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Sunday stood by foreign policy comments that sparked an anti-U.S. protest in Pakistan and attacks from his opponents, telling an audience in rural Nevada, "There was no mistake there."
Democratic presidential contenders Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bill Richardson on Wednesday urged the Bush administration to continue a dialogue with Iran as the U.S. tries to thwart the country's pursuit of nuclear weapons.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain envisions a "League of Democracies" as part of a more cooperative foreign policy with U.S. allies.
The 60 most vulnerable states of the 148 countries examined in the second annual "failed states index" of Foreign Policy magazine and the Fund for Peace:
The Shame and Folly of Obama's Afghan WarThe problem with this second argument is that Afghanistan already is a failed state, if the definition of a failed state is one in which there is no effective central government.
O=w The real choice Obama faced was not how many troops to send. We do not have enough troops to commit a militarily meaningful number. The real choice was to get out now or get out later.
Five Good Reasons to Avoid a War with IranIt is likely that the United States will eventually go to war with Iran. I say this with some confidence.
Zakaria: Obama the Realist | Newsweek Politics | Newsweek.comIf you take just one sentence out, Barack Obama's speech on Afghanistan last week was all about focusing and limiting the scope of America's mission in that country.
Progressive Hero Alan Grayson's Secret Life As An AIPAC [American Israel Public Affairs Committee] ToolSince defeating an incumbent in Florida's Republican-heavy 8th congressional district, Rep. Alan Grayson has emerged as one of the progressive movement's most vocal champions.
Obama's War Speech: An Unconvincing FlopThose who were hoping for some real change in our rhetoric, if not our foreign policy, with Obama in the White House are no doubt sorely disappointed right now, because George W.
More Asinine Southern Baptist WarmongeringRichard Land, the president of the Southern Baptist's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, instead of denouncing Obama's new Afghanistan troop surge as a senseless waste of lives and dollars, said this:
Obama's Narrative & AfghanistanPropagated by liberal intellectuals; politicians; activist judges; university preachers; priests of the media, celebrity culture, entertainment, social service groups, and clergy; Web sites; and textbooks, the Liberal Narrative, which Obama long ago chose to accept, posits that t …
Imperial wars with no end is Obama's real policy, like his predecessor. To these numbers, add a shadow footprint consisting of tens of thousands of private contractors - 73,968 according to a September 21, 2009 Congressional Research Service (CRS) Report as of June 2009.
"Soft Diplomacy" Won't Stop Iran From Building A Bomb -Victor Davis HansonObama's serial deadlines and hope and change rhetoric have had no effect on the Iranians. Obama can either accept that the theocracy will go nuclear and live with it, or he must take graduated steps to stop them.
What Is Obama Thinking?We might go out on a limb and assume that the president is telling the truth about his reasons for sending the additional troops: he believes, as he declares in his speech today, that "we must deny al-Qaida a safe haven. We must reverse the Taliban's momentum.
The U.S. Government Is Taking Us Down America need not fear the terrorists or even a foreign invasion. The U.S. government is doing a fine job taking down our country all on its own.
The Arabs Have Stopped Applauding ObamaHe has not made the world anew, history did not bend to his will, the Indians and Pakistanis have been told that the matter of Kashmir is theirs to resolve, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the same intractable clash of two irreconcilable nationalisms, and the theocrats in Ira …
Suddenly the whole world is watching – and waiting to learn what's next for the U.S. in Afghanistan. Who would've guessed? Certainly not I. After all - only a year ago, Afghan War coverage was buried deep in the bowels of newspapers.
All aboard with failure this goodThe meme against Obama by those who are of the mindset to be against him & his policies is already set in stone, and it is to repeat what have you done for me lately as often as possible, while casting any attempt at doing or saying anything as further proof that there's some sor …
Evah Bayh, "Deficit Hawk"Senator Evan Bayh was on Fox News yesterday demanding an escalation of the war in Afghanistan, while simultaneously rejecting the idea of a so-called "war tax" to pay for it.
The megalomaniacal President and the impotent IAEANo matter the topic, it is all Obama, all of the time.
Why Turkey Was the Iraq War's Real Winner | Newsweek International | Newsweek.comTurkey is becoming a regional power in the Middle East and initiating proactive mediation between its neighbors. Additionally, the Turks are experiencing economic upturns. Is this good or bad? Where should the United States stand on this?
Obama can't take another bow by Peggy NoonanFrom journalist Elizabeth Drew, a veteran and often sympathetic chronicler of Democratic figures, a fiery denunciation of—and warning for—the White House. In a piece in Politico on the firing of White House counsel Greg Craig, Ms.
Live from West Point...It's President ObamaWhy West Point for the Afghanistan troop announcement?
U.S. landmines policy still under reviewA review of U.S. landmines policy is ongoing and will take awhile to complete, a State Department spokesman said on Wednesday, clarifying an earlier comment that the Obama administration had concluded it needed the weapons.
Chickenhawk-in-Chief Sends More Troops to Kill AfghansI am always amazed at how stupid US war propaganda is. Don't Americans need a sophisticated argument to agree to murder foreign men, women, and children, and payoff the merchants of death out of their own pockets? Apparently not.
U.S. Friends and Enemies...Now Smell Blood There is a sense that America is in fact hemorrhaging — as both friends and enemies smell blood in the water and Obama through concession and constant talk -- is trying to superficially restore the influence we once earned by virtue of our economic power and self-confidence in …
Save Those Bullets for the Monsters The same lady who made the "despicable" comment asked if anyone advocating the resolution was present at Ground Zero on 9/11 to smell the burning buildings or if we witnessed the massacre of Ft.
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