A jihadist in plain sight in Lahore makes the most-wanted list.

 I have long wondered whether Obama, desperate to distract the electorate from his feckless economic policies, would consider the military option to strike Iran’s nuclear weapons program. The answer to that appears to be, no, if not hell no.

I can't remember a more stunning rebuke of a president by a congressional leader than Speaker John Boehner's refusal to agree to Barack Obama's demand that he summon a joint session of Congress to hear the president's latest speech on the economy. It illustrates several of the weaknesses of this presidency.

In the Alice in Wonderland world of U.S. policy toward the Hermit Kingdom, all the White House can summon itself to do is "condemn" North Korea's attack on Yeonpyeong.

President Obama’s Mexico strategy picked up where the Bush-era “Merida Plan” package left off. In 2012, if Mexicans choose a new president who decides to end the anti-drug offensive, we may wish that we had done more to support our Mexican allies when we had the chance.

While the “lurch to the left” in the Americas may be a simplistic reading of recent events in the region--as left-of-center leaders govern moderately and responsibly in Brazil, Chile, and Peru, for example--Venezuela’s firebrand, Hugo Chávez, and his acolytes in South America continue to tear down democratic institutions to put...

There has been much gnashing of teeth and rolling of eyes over eurozone leaders' repeated inability to solve their financial crisis once and for all. The rest of the world can best help, the reasoning goes, by shouting exhortations at Europe to just try harder. But what, exactly, are Europeans being urged to do?

The Republican party is in danger of losing its deserved reputation for being strong on defense. President Obama's "bin Laden bounce" in the polls will fade, but if his 2012 opponent is the nominee of a quasi-isolationist, green-eyeshade GOP, Obama will be able to claim he's the most assertive candidate for commander in chief.