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“Rules must be binding. Violations must be punished. Words must mean something.” So declared President Obama Sunday in Prague regarding North Korea’s missile launch, which America’s U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice added was a direct violation of U.N. resolutions. At which point, the Security Council spent hours debating its nonresponse, thus proving to nuclear proliferators everywhere [...]

There’s a lot of talk of “energy independence” coming from the Obama administration. It’s a perennial red herring. Of it, Holman Jenkins stated earlier this week it was “a favorite of Tojo and Hitler, was debunked by Churchill, who reasoned that true energy security came from a diversity of suppliers, not the foolish pursuit of [...]

It’s not everyday I quote Hillary Clinton, at least not in a complementary way, but after hearing the Iranian government’s response to Barack Obama’s “carrots and sticks” statement on Sunday (below), I think her ridicule of Obama was very prescient: “Let’s get unified. The sky will open, the light will come down. Celestial choirs will [...]

Arthur Herman makes an interesting point: To understand the nature of this challenge, consider that the distance between Baghdad and Tbilisi is barely 578 miles, less than the distance between New York City and Chicago. Iraq and Georgia, both of which have democratic governments, are sandwiched between Iran and Russia, two of the most authoritarian [...]