Max Boot dredges up an old smear against realists: But it is precisely the kind of calculation that a cold-blooded and aloof president who has often in the past expressed his admiration for the ...
Jim DeMint must be kidding: President Obama, having thrown away George W. Bush’s gains in the Middle East [bold mine-DL], should not now also waste Ronald Reagan’s success in Europe. DeMint happens to ...
For those who don’t remember: Chicken Kiev (as it was spelled at the time), in the context of geopolitics, refers to an Aug. 1, 1991 speech by then-US President George H.W. Bush in the capital of what ...
In the dying days of the Soviet Union, President George H W Bush gave a speech in Kiev urging Ukrainian nationalists not to provoke Moscow. US conservatives dubbed it his “chicken Kiev” speech. Having ...
As the Soviet Union disintegrated in May 1990, its leader Mikhail Gorbachev made what was, in effect, a concession speech to assembled dignitaries after a dinner at the Soviet embassy in Washington.
For American diplomacy to be successful, it must reflect the values of the American people and all who aspire to freedom throughout the world. President George H. W. Bush learned this the hard way ...
If you find the language coming out of the Obama administration on Egypt eerily familiar, you are not mistaken. We’ve heard this tune before. Since mass demonstrations broke out in Cairo demanding ...