Danielle Pletka is a foreign policy analyst and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where she has focused on Middle East policy, nonproliferation, and U.S. national security. She contributed commentary to The Weekly Standard in 2008, writing on topics including Iran and presidential campaign foreign policy.
Brian Williams, anchorman and part-time earnest diplomat, needs to get back to reading the news. His blockbuster journalistic coup--scoring an interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad--is a farce. Maybe it was the heady trip to the Middle East and Europe with the man who will bring…
TODAY, SENATOR BARACK OBAMA will speak before the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), where he will execute a maneuver likely to become familiar to the American people in the months ahead: the pander pivot. That is, a sharp turn to the right to satisfy a vital…