Jihadists awoke to a new dawn on the day that the Obama administration began implementing a new and uncharted foreign policy seven years ago. In his 2009 inaugural speech the new president declared that America “will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist” when discussing “those who cling to power through […]
The catastrophic disaster in Libya will define President Barack Obama’s war legacy much as Iraq defines President George W. Bush’s. Most if not all of the 2016 Republican candidates faced the question of whether they would have supported the 2003 U.S. campaign to remove dictator Saddam Hussein from power. So it is fair that the […]
Soon after assuming office, President Obama began reaching out to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, and — as noted by former UK ambassador Charles Crawford — his Cairo speech capped this new approach: “On June 4, 2009, Obama delivered a speech to the Muslim world in Cairo in which he declared that ‘America and Islam […]
This article originally appeared on Newsmax By: Pete Hoekstra NBC’s “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd in a recent exchange with a presidential candidate raised an issue that should be discussed not only by all of the candidates, but debated and analyzed by the American people. Is Islamic law (Shariah) compatible with the U.S. Constitution? […]
By Greg Richter Iranian negotiators seem pleased with themselves over the Iran nuclear deal announced Tuesday, but they had little to do with their success, former CIA Director James Woolsey tells Newsmax TV’s “Hard Line.” “It wasn’t really any particular skill on their part. We were negotiating against ourselves and we defeated ourselves,” Woolsey told host Ed […]
Mokhtar Belmokhtar was charged with leading a deadly gas-plant attack in Algeria By PHILIP SHISHKIN in Washington and DREW HINSHAW in Accra, Ghana Updated June 14, 2015 10:36 p.m. ET U.S. aircraft carried out a strike in Libya targeting a senior al Qaeda commander who masterminded terrorist attacks across the Sahara, the Pentagon said on Sunday. While […]
CAIRO — Islamic State militants staged attacks near Baghdad and the Libyan city of Surt on Tuesday, underscoring the group’s persistent strength on both fronts despite a monthslong American-led air campaign against it in Syria and Iraq. In Libya, the Islamic State captured a critical power plant along the coastal road westward from its stronghold in […]
By:Pete Hoekstra Libya has steadily devolved into a lawless failed state since NATO and the U.S. assisted rebels in deposing dictator Muammar Gaddafi less than four years ago. In the past few days alone the Islamic State in Libya claimed to have beheaded two Tunisian journalists; Turkish Airlines became the last foreign carrier to service […]
By: Pete Hoekstra Not long ago, Washington considered arming and training rebels engaged in what would become a fierce civil war. Nations with an invested stake in the outcome discussed whether to support a perceived David against a corrupt Goliath in a strategically located region of the world. The consequences would have broad ramifications that […]
