A year ago today I was sitting on a cold floor of a dark elementary school at 5am determined to be the first in my precinct to vote for Barack Obama. I could not sleep the night even though as a veteran of other election campaign nights I could feel...

Iran's anti-democratic and repressive regime is a member of a fraternal club of other like-minded anti-democratic and repressive regimes which include Russia and China. They do stick together. And friends they are indeed!

In one bad week for us good guys, both Russia and China brushed aside diplomatic entreaties...

Today's 8th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks should refocus our sites to the unfinished business against Al Qaeda. As victims' names are read one by one and the sad, rain soaked faces of families who lost loved ones peer into Ground Zero, this most essential of national purposes warrants revisiting....

Ted Kennedy was my boss and my mentor. More than anyone in my life, he inspired me as he inspired all of the many hundreds of staffers who served him on his senate staff.

I began volunteering as a freshman in college in his mailroom in 1969 when I...

Ironically, the temperature in Cairo today was a balmy 94 degrees compared to Washington's oppressively steamy 97 degrees. But that did not deter 81-year-old Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak from winging into DC for encouraging meetings with President Obama, Vice President Biden and Secretary of State Clinton to reinvigorate Egypt's pivotal...

Supported by the Revolutionary Guards and its Basij Miliitia (the equivalent of its Gestapo/SS), the Supreme Leader's iron-fisted tactics are beginning to resemble what the revolution was supposed to have overthrown -- the worst vestiges of the dreaded Shah's secret police state built around the notorious SAVAK. In the face...

I am writing this as the sun is about to rise in Iran. I have this dreaded feeling that very bad things are about to happen throughout Iran in a few short hours and I pray I am wrong.

In his Friday Prayer address, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei essentially...

The bloodshed and civil disorder in the streets of Tehran -- unseen since the 1979 revolution that overthrew Shah Reza Pahlavi -- constitutes an appropriate civil rebuke to Iran's ruling mullahs, who badly miscalculated how unpopular their brutish President Mahmoud Ahmadenijad really is among wide swaths of Iran's population.

In...

Taking on the sacred cow of Israeli settlements construction in the West Bank has historically been a fool's errand for American presidents.

Caught between Israel's concerned supporters at home (many of whom do not appreciate the complexity of the issue) and domestic Israeli politics, no amount of presidential arm-twisting...

TOP SECRET

FROM: Washington, D.C. Agent Mossadeq - Ministry of Intelligence & Security
TO: Office of the Supreme Leader Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khameni
RE: OBAMA-NETANYAHU MAY 18 SUMMIT

Holy Imam:

The following report summarizes our Washington intelligence unit's assessment of Monday's summit meeting between the Zionist leader...

As President Obama calibrates his engagement policy with Iran and plans his next steps with the vexing Islamic Republic, that nation will go to the polls on June 12 to elect a president. The election will have important implications for the U.S. and the future of Middle East stability since...

Two years ago, Barack Obama was a mere back-bencher on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, whose chairman is now our Vice President, Joe Biden. From his 24 month journey as back-bencher to Commander-in-Chief, President Obama has made an incredibly impressive start altering the direction of America's foreign policy -- altogether...

I've been in China this week after addressing a forum at Beijing University on the new Obama administration's foreign policy. During my visit, North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly, or parliament saw fit to unanimously elect "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-il to a third five year term as head of the country's...

Watching the President unveil his well-constructed Obama Doctrine for Afghanistan and Pakistan this morning, it is all too clear from his message that the safety of Europeans is as much on the line as the safety of Americans as events in Afghanistan unfold. But you wouldn't know it given how...

Kremlin inspired vengeance knows no limits when it comes to the miscarriage of justice committed by Russian authorities against political prisoners Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his fellow imprisoned business partner, Platon Lebedev. Both men now face the prospect of a second Soviet era kangaroo-style proceeding designed to keep them in the...

So here we are once again, another political groundhog day in Israel resulting in yet another inconclusive national election. Neither of the two major political parties -- Tzipi LIvni's Kadima or Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud, scored a major political knock out punch, leaving just one parliamentary seat separating the two claimants...

Deep from his post-vice presidential dungeon Dick Cheney is wasting no time grinding out the same ol sinister dirge on his organ... a funereal threat that the Democrats are too soft on terrorism to protect the country. Now, haven't we been in this movie before!

In an interview yesterday, Cheney...

What transfixed me most about President Obama's eloquently choreographed initial outreach to the broader Muslim world on the moderate pan-Arab satellite channel "Al-Arabiya" was the studied confidence of the messenger and the mastery of his message.

In an unprecedented unveiling of the new Democratic "soft power" public diplomacy, the...

I rushed to my office in downtown Washington, but a few long blocks from the Capitol to share with you the wonderous experience of witnessing first-hand the inauguration of President Obama. Having stood within but a few hundred yards from the inaugural stand for hours surrounded by thousands at the...

So much as been written about the fighting in Gaza and its political and military consequences, but surely not enough has been written about the terrible humanitarian conditions that have befallen its unfortunate non-combatant inhabitants.

Every party -- yes, any party remotely involved in instigating or failing to prevent the...