By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama's vacillation on Syria -- delaying military action and booting the decision to Congress -- poses grave threats to U.S. prosperity.
By HARLAN ULLMAN, UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" offers a relevant insight into how to respond -- or not -- to chemical weapons attacks in Syria that claimed 1,500 lives.
By JAMES ZUMWALT, UPI Outside View Commentator
HERNDON, Va., Sept. 3 (UPI) -- A 5-year-old Saudi girl may prove to wield more influence over her people than the country's religious leaders touting twisted "virtues" of Islam.
By WILLIAM SPRIGGS, UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said he pick a fight with U.S. President Barack Obama over the nation's debt ceiling.
By STRUAN STEVENSON, UPI Outside View Commentator
BRUSSELS, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- The predictable consequence of the West's failure to take action in Syria manifested itself Saturday night in the brutal massacre of unarmed civilians in Camp Ashraf in Iraq.
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Aug. 29 (UPI) -- U.S. gross domestic product growth was revised up for the second quarter to 2.5 percent from 1.7 percent because the trade deficit was much smaller than originally estimated and investments in inventory were revised upward.
By HARLAN ULLMAN, UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Insanity has been described as constantly repeating the same mistake and expecting a different outcome. That characterization sadly applies to U.S. attitudes and policies toward much of what is happening in Egypt and the Arab and Islamic worlds.
By JAMES ZUMWALT, UPI Outside View Commentator
HERNDON, Va., Aug. 27 (UPI) -- The Egyptian army has taught the Muslim Brotherhood the meaning of putting the cart before the horse.
By HARLAN ULLMAN, UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- To paraphrase Shakespeare: Alas poor NATO. We knew it well.
By JAMES ZUMWALT, UPI Outside View Commentator
HERNDON, Va., Aug. 20 (UPI) -- If more Richard Kinkaids and fewer Al Gores were involved, the United States' national security interests might prevail.
By HARLAN ULLMAN, UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- Unspecific warnings last week about an al-Qaida terrorist plot were taken very seriously.
By JAMES ZUMWALT, UPI Outside View Commentator
HERNDON, Va., Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Was Adolf Hitler born too early? That is, could a 21st-century Hitler have prevailed in imposing Nazism upon the world where a 20th-century Hitler failed?
By RYSZARD CZARNECKI, UPI Outside View Commentator
WARSAW, Poland, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- We have seen failures of the United Nations in protecting refugees. If the world stands by and watches, the same could happen to Iranian refugees in Iraq.
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Aug. 9 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama wants private banks to use depositor and investor funds to write 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages at affordable rates. He won't admit those goals and others imposed by Congress require the federal government to guarantee mortgages and banks against failure.
By MURIEL TURNER, UPI Outside View Commentator
LONDON, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- The West has long shaken hands with despots in the Middle East in the name of stability and order and this continues with the change of presidents in Iran.