You can’t blame the Palestinians for trying. Over the last few years, the Obama Administration has encouraged the Palestinians to make bold moves. While shifting U.S. policy away from Israel, President Obama clearly and definitively told the Palestinians to reject violence but plan for statehood. Within five months of taking office, Obama spoke in Cairo to a massive Muslim audience in what the White House billed as the President’s first major address on Israeli-Palestinian relations.

President Barack Obama arrived in India this week with a large gift in hand.  After just a few short hours, Obama announced to the world that America would support India as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.  The support from Obama was a huge coup for the Indians but took diplomats at the UN by surprise.  India, after all, was being rewarded despite the fact that it has done very little to help reform the UN.  Ironically, it has been India that has stood in the way of the very sweeping reforms that will now be needed…

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It sounds as if Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has had enough. Her new strong tone on North Korea is a welcome, albeit overdue, shift. The Obama Administration’s North Korea policy for the past 18 months has consisted of public relations ploys of pretending to get tough on the rogue state and a propensity to re-package the hard work of the Bush team and call it something new and improved. Her announcement that the Obama Administration will enforce the existing sanctions on nuclear related materials and luxury goods going in and out of North Korea is yet another example. While…

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