Obama isn't good off the cuff, especially when challenged; he is far better with a prepared speech. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Barack Obama's military triumphs will come neither in long wars nor even short ones, but in a series of raids. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
I think President Obama views Israel as a problem that needs to be solved. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
I just don't understand how Kerry or Obama or anybody else thought Assad was going to change. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Both Bibi and Obama realize that they are going to have to face the problem of Iran together. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
On taking office in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama put Israeli settlements at the center of U.S. policy in the Middle East. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The Obama administration rarely demonstrated the ability to shift gears and change policy in its first year. Even in the face of… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
President Obama has never summarized the Obama Doctrine with such clarity, but here is what it would look like: 'I will undertake… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
In critical ways, Obama has reversed not just Bush policy but every president's approach to the world since the Second World War,… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The Middle East that Obama inherited in 2009 was largely at peace, for the surge in Iraq had beaten down the al… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The Obama administration has vastly expanded the use of armed drones and concentrated a great deal of diplomatic effort on building and… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Peace in the Middle East has been on the Obama administration's mind from the beginning. Two days after his inauguration, the president… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The Obama administration appears to regard intelligence leaks and briefings more or less like briefings by the Democratic National Committee or White… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
In 2007, early in the improbable presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the young first-term senator began a series of foreign-policy speeches that… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Now in its third year in office, the Obama Administration has never championed the cause of human rights. Its slow reaction in… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
If you say to the White House, 'Obama has been very unfriendly to Israel,' they say, 'What do you mean? It's the… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
In 2004, President Bush gave Prime Minister Sharon certain guarantees about American policy, but the Obama administration treated those as a kind… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The Knesset is in Israel, and the Western Wall is in Israel, and the sooner the Obama administration realizes this, the closer… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The Obama administration has been trying out a new policy toward Syria since the day it came to office. The Bush cold… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Even today, when the Obama administration has liberalized travel to Cuba - and failed to reverse that liberalization when Alan Gross was… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Obama's foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
On the human rights side, administration policy has been marked by indifference. When the people of Iran flooded the streets to protest… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
For the entire first term, Obama and his people blamed Bush for everything - which is another way of saying they felt… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Obama is like the kid brother whose only standard for judging his own achievements is the records his big brother set. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
President Obama has never summarized the Obama Doctrine with such clarity, but here is what it would look like: 'I will undertake any military… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
From its earliest days in the nineteenth century, and until the Holocaust, the Orthodox rabbinate in eastern Europe was not enthusiastic about the Zionist… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Israel and the Palestinians had been at the table together for decades until the Obama/Mitchell/Rahm Emanuel decision to demand a total end to Israeli… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The Egyptian military and the government of Israel have long had a common interest in maintaining order and fighting terrorism in Sinai. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
In 2007, early in the improbable presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the young first-term senator began a series of foreign-policy speeches that seemed too… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Refusing to lift sanctions and adopting tougher rhetoric toward Iran would not be partisan issues. Plenty of Democrats think that those actions are both… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk human rights… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
