In sharp contrast to the global optimism felt when President Barack Obama first took office, new polls suggest that both domestic and international approval of the Obama administration foreign policy has declined significantly. According to polls taken by Fox News, Time, CBS, and CNN in June 2013, an average of 46 percent of Americans disapprove of President Obama’s foreign policy, while 44 percent approve. A majority of Americans are supportive of U.S. drone strikes in the Middle East, which ...

A report filed by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) claims that the Afghan Ministry of Finance has levied $921 million in business taxes against contractors supporting the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan, despite existing agreements that such organizations are tax exempt. According to the report, 43 of the sampled contractors paid only 7 percent ($67 million) of the levied taxes, creating a legal deadlock which the report attributes to the Ministry of Finance’...