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
Two presidents pursued human rights policies that were serious and effective: Reagan and George W. Bush. They understood that American support for… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
It seems clear to me that the Obama Administration has no human rights policy. That is, while in some inchoate sense they… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Bahai Iranians are barred from holding government jobs, their children are excluded from the nation's university system, their marriages are not recognized… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Obamas 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
What does 'politicizing intelligence' mean? Using intel, or more often, partial intel, to produce an effect in line with White House policies… — 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… — 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
Oil policy, policy toward the United States, policy toward Iran, Bahrain, Yemen, very unlikely, I think, to see significant change. These policies… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
During the election campaign of 2000, it was generally thought that then-governor Bush didn't know much about foreign policy or national security… — 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
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
When the policy is controversial, you have to go out and defend it. — 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
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
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
An effective U.S. policy toward Sudan - one capable of changing the situation in the south and affecting the lives of its… — 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 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
The Saudis and Emiratis blame all of this on Iran. I think they’d have to grant, that as has been said, that… — 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
