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No Thanks to Obama, the World Is Finally Figuring Out How to Fight ISIS

Yes, it’s unfortunate that the US has a president, Barack Obama, who consistently sees things from the Muslim point of view. Even the Obamaphilic reporter Juliet Eilperin, writing for the Obamaphilic Washington Post, had to admit, “President Obama has never been one to go easy on America.”

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International Relations Scholars: Kerry Least Effective Secretary of State in Half a Century

Nobody puts the SoS in Secretary of State quite like John Kerry, who has overseen the rout of American influence and prestige in every corner of the globe, managing the neat trick of making Hillary Clinton look relatively consequential, or at least harmless. Kerry has finally been given the recognition he deserves by foreign policy scholars, who named him the least effective SecState of the past 50 years.

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Bolton: Obama and Rand ‘Very Dangerous’ on ISIS

Former UN Ambassador John Bolton argued that both President Obama and Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) take a “very dangerous” approach to ISIS on Thursday’s “John Gibson Show” on Fox News Radio. “The purpose of foreign policy, in the long term

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Mitt Romney Bashes Hillary Clinton on Foreign Policy

Many Republicans want new blood, and while they think Romney is a swell guy, they feel his time has passed, and that Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Scott Walker, or some other like-minded candidate would have a better shot of defeating the Democrat nominee in 2016.

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Russia Raids Tatar Crimean Television Station

Russian officials raided ATR, an independent Tatar Crimean television station on January 26. The deputy director said the men took equipment and tapes, which basically shut down all operations. Russians have consistently targeted the Tatar minority since Moscow annexed the peninsula from Ukraine in March 2014.

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Obama’s deflated-football SOTU speech

Tha annual State of the Union address is the quintessential Beltway performance, a weird little surrealist play in which every scripted line, ad-lib, invited guest, and round of applause is calculated to send messages, settle scores, goose poll numbers, and above all help the Ruling Class feel important.

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On 1-Year Anniversary of Nuke Talks, Iran Signs Military Deal with Russia

On the one-year anniversary of the start of talks with Iran, and as President Barack Obama prepares to give his State of the Union address, Russia has signed a military deal with Iran. The agreement covers “includes expanded counter-terrorism cooperation, exchanges of military personnel for training purposes and an understanding for each country’s navy to more frequently use the other’s ports,” the AP reports.

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Ron Johnson: ‘There Is No Strategy’ to Defeat ISIS

Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee said that “there is no strategy” to defeat ISIS on Monday’s “Kelly File” on the Fox News Channel. “I’m not sure how much time President Obama will devote to

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7 Foreign Policy Blunders That Spell Danger on Iran

President Barack Obama has made it clear that a nuclear deal with Iran is one of his top priorities this year. Disarmament has, in fact, been the only constant in his foreign policy, not just since taking office in 2009 but since his college days at Columbia. Yet as negotiations have broken one deadline after another, America’s allies–especially Israel and Saudi Arabia–have become alarmed, fearing a weak deal that will leave Iran on the cusp of nuclear armament. Five key foreign policy blunders reinforced those fears.