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Iranians took to the streets to celebrate Revolution Day and hear President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad proudly declare the country is now a “nuclear state.” Its Natanz plant successfully produced 20% enriched uranium, capable as fuel for nuclear power plants but also as atomic weapons. Guess which purpose Ahmadinejad has in mind? ‘We have the capability to [...]

President Obama seems a bit confused when it comes to foreign policy. He’s ticked off the Brits, French, and Germans in Europe, shown no support for the oppressed Iranian protesters over a fradulent election, and now he is backing Honduran President Manuel Zelaya (a friend of Chavez and Castro, by the way). President Zelaya wants [...]

First, the best way to keep abreast of what’s going on in Iran is through Twitter’s #iranelection stream. Additionally, there are some incredible photos and videos coming out of Iran. Foreign journalists are asked to leave the country. Apparently Tehran has clamped down on media outlets and shut the Internet access as well as cell [...]

President Obama and the First Lady declined dinner with the French First Family even though they’re staying at the nearby U.S. Ambassador’s residence. The Obamas are there to attend tomorrow’s D-Day ceremony at the U.S. cemetery above Omaha Beach. It’s no secret that Obama and Sarkozy aren’t close buddies as both have publicly and privately [...]

President Obama claims to be an agent of change in Washington, but there’s yet to be evidence to support his campaign message. Looking at his ambassador appointments, it’s the same ol’ story of pay-to-play. Here are some top Obama campaign donors getting top foreign posts: Susman is a former vice chairman of corporate and investment [...]

Seriously, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry about this from the Telegraph: Then came the dramatic bit, the authentic West Wing script, with the President wakened in the middle of the night in Prague to be told that Kim Jong-il had just launched a Taepodong-2 missile. America had Aegis destroyers tracking the missile [...]

President Obama is afraid that accepting a sincere invitation from French President Nicolas Sarkozy to visit Normandy would offend the Germans and British. According to the Telegraph: “During this trip, we wanted to maintain a balance between the British, German and France”. A White House spokesman in London declined to comment. Last month, White House [...]

How about that for a Hollywood blockbuster? It’s starting to look that way with Harold Koh, nominated by President Obama to be the State Department’s legal advisor, and talks of the White House perusing top Muslim Americans for a high ranking government position. But this is no comedy. Before his nomination Harold Koh was dean [...]

British P.M. Gordon Brown shouldn’t feel so bad receiving DVDs from President Obama which, by the way, don’t play in the U.K. thanks to anti-piracy measures. He should be glad he’s not in French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s shoes. What describes President Obama better? Rookie president of the year? The political virgin? Barack “On no!” Obama? [...]

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton didn’t mention a word about human rights when she visited China, which is somewhat unusual traditionally. Instead she claimed that by pressing Beijing on human rights issues, she might tick the Communists off and risk them to abandon U.S. treasuries. That would be terrible in the current economic meltdown, wouldn’t [...]

President Obama’s administration is drafting a letter to the madman of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in response to the Iranian president’s congratulatory letter upon Obama’s inauguration. Hmmm, I wonder how the letter would start? Dear Mr. I-Want-Nuclear-Bombs? Dear Mr. Wipe-Israel-Off-the-Map? Dear Mr. Holocaust-Never-Happened?… Share and Enjoy:

Oh yes, the silence is deafening. President-elect Obama has remained muted in light of the recent conflict in Gaza between Israel and Hamas. Also not a word from his choice for Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. And same with Joe Biden, his V.P. with mountains of foreign policies experience. It’s starting to make many Obama [...]

Hillary is being vetted as a candidate for Secretary of State in the Obama administration, but there are many out there who do not like the idea. David Ignatius explains in the Washington Post blog: The game changer in foreign policy is Barack Obama himself. Traveling in Europe earlier this month, I was stunned by [...]

That’s what American will become should Obama enter the White House. Writing in the WSJ, Pete Du Pont calls it the “Europeanization of America,” and lists seven things that’ll happen: The U.S. military will withdraw from Iraq quickly and substantially, regardless of conditions on the ground or the obvious consequence of emboldening terrorists there and [...]

Sen. Biden predicts that should Obama becomes president, he will be tested with an “international crisis” within six months, “to test the mettle of this guy…” And that “he’s gonna need help…” It looks like Obama’s V.P. choice isn’t so sure of his boss’s abilities in a time of crisis. Is Biden simply insinuating that [...]