So, David Sanger had a piece in the NYT last weekend wondering whether there’s a “Romney doctrine.” Of course, he wasn’t really wondering; he knew from the get go what he thought. And luckily for Sanger, he had plenty of Romney advisers to help along his theory.

For the first time in 20 years, Saudi Arabia has named an ambassador to Iraq. For years the Saudis resisted U.S. entreaties to take this step, and the current relationship between these two most important Arab countries in the Gulf has not been warm, so the timing is curious and...

James K. Glassman reports on the findings of the Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy in the Arab and Muslim World.

Recognizing "statehood" does not mean U.N. membership, but it would nonetheless be a major Palestinian success. A resolution recognizing a Palestinian "state" could also declare its boundary to be the 1967 borders (in actuality, merely the 1949 armistice lines), with or without President Obama's caveat about "agreed upon swaps" of land.

The Palestinian Authority succeeded last Monday in becoming a member state in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

The Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy in the Arab and Muslim World is scheduled to issue a report to Congress and to the White House on October 1, 2003. While details have not yet been released, the report is expected to have an important impact on the way the...

Things that start badly seldom end well, and the Baker-Hamilton findings start badly, with the commission's wholly unproven assertions on Iran and Syria.

John Kerry may not be responsible for left-wing rantings, but he could strike a blow for decency in America if he denounced the murderous hysteria in Hollywood and Manhattan.