by Lindsay Holst | Feb 18, 2015 | Monitor
Ed. Note: The following op-ed by President Obama appeared in the Los Angeles Times this morning. The United States has made significant gains against terrorism. We've decimated the core al Qaeda leadership, strengthened homeland security and worked to prevent...
by John Bugnacki | May 29, 2014 | Monitor
Oil and Corruption: Map of Libya’s Oil Fields and Exporting Ports Across Libya, militias like the Petroleum Defense Guard are currently occupying the country’s key ports and oil fields. The Petroleum Defense Guard alone is estimated to control 17,000...
by aelkus | Aug 2, 2013 | Monitor
One long, deadly night in an isolated outpost in a place few Americans could place on a map. A tragic turn of events and Americans dead. The headline could stand in for a dizzying number of places from the Horn of Africa to Afghanistan. So why Benghazi? Why has it...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | May 22, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe The President, it seems, can’t walk and chew gum. The so-called Asian pivot is a case in point, but not the only one. Is it really possible that a great power with the formal institutional resources available to the U.S. can’t keep an eye on the...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Jan 11, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia H. Kushlis Whether Hillary’s reaction to the Accountability Review Board’s Benghazi Report upon reading it was to faint, hit her head, and suffer a rare blood clot following a concussion or whether the two sad events simply coincided and collided like...
