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Clifford D. May

Clifford D. May

Clifford D. May is the founder and president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), a columnist for The Washington Times and host of the “Foreign Podicy” podcast.

The surviving members of the regime have played what they believe to be their trump card: targeting the production of oil by their Arab neighbors and preventing the flow of oil shipments through a body of water with two-mile-wide navigable shipping lanes.
Yet a motley crew on the left and right are not happy about the idea that national decline is a choice the president firmly rejects.
There were some fraught days when U.S. President Donald Trump was threatening to use a big stick to take the island away from the Danes, but the situation seems to have settled down.
Do you think that being incarcerated in a city that has a socialist mayor is any consolation for him? Is he feeling the collectivist warmth?
The good, the bad and the conspicuously absent.
Working to re-establish the caliphate for almost a century.
Germany, Britain and France make it harder to get a ceasefire in Gaza.
Syria’s endangered minorities deserve protection.
It’s not a warmed-over version of Obama’s fatally flawed Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
Lord Roberts’ parliamentary report combats denial with evidence.
Never again will Israelis allow a “ring of fire” to burn on their nation’s borders
Are they with America or against America?