For several weeks now it’s been clear that Putin won’t attend this month’s NATO summit in Chicago. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen recently spoke with Russia’s new/old president and explained that it’s “not possible and not practical” for Putin to participate because of his “busy domestic calendar.”

CTV sees an insult as the prime pinister of Canada visits the White House.

Terrorists have detected one of the fruits of their work: confusion and obfuscation about who the terrorists and their victims really are.

Only domestic politics can explain two of the Obama administration's most controversial moves: exporting illegal guns to Mexico and balking at building an oil pipeline from Canada.

We cannot fully appreciate the psychic burden of ordering into harm's way men and women whom you see in front of you.

In awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to the accomplishment-free Mr. Obama, the Norwegian parliamentarians who voted were not so much recognizing the young president so much as they were honoring themselves and their own timid foreign-policy creed.

Barack Obama has based his policies as president on two assumptions. One year after his election, both assumptions appear to have been mistaken.

George Bush is off to Europe this week, and a very strange trip it may well turn out to be.