foreign policy

Syria, which has the largest known stockpile of chemical weapons in the world, is reportedly threatening to use them against rebels seeking to overthrow the government of President Assad, I am wary about another intervention in the Middle East. Every time we try something there it seems not to work out to America's advantage.

Monday night's final presidential debate before the November 6 election revealed little. I wish Romney had pressed the president on Libya and the attack that killed four Americans, including our ambassador. For whatever reason, he did not.

Clearly, this administration’s reluctance to deal with the realities of Islamist fundamentalist terrorism, even under the admittedly weak description of a "War on Terror," and its insistence that "al Qaeda is on the run," reflect a denial of reality unfocused on reality. The White House reaction to the Benghazi debacle is amateurish at best.

A slew of stories are emerging of forced sterilizations in India as a form of birth control in a country with 1.2 billion people. What's also becoming clear is that the sterilizations are carried out using Western aid money.

Does our government really believe refusing to recognize Jerusalem as the eternal capital of Israel will pacify Arabs and Muslims?

The Obama administration announced an effort to use U.S. foreign aid to promote rights for gays and lesbians abroad.

U.S. foreign policy often has unintended consequences. Those consequences now include the persecution of Christians.