In October 2011, North phoned into America’s Radio News to criticize a decision by the Obama administration to recall all troops from Iraq by the end of 2011. North said, “This administration was committed to doing away with America’s military force, basically, years ago. They are now carrying that out.” He also claimed that the “the people who are most glad of this [withdrawing from Iraq] aren’t going to be Americas soldiers, sailors, airmen, or marines. Its gonna be the Iranians.” When the interviewer began to ask, “You say this administration has failed foreign policies, but they got [Osama] bin Laden, they got [Muammar] Ghaddafi, they’re doing what most Americans want which is getting out of Iraq,” North interrupted, “The unmanned aerial vehicles—which our colleagues in the media mistakenly call ‘drones’—were bought under the budget provided by George W. Bush. They’ve more than quadrupled the numbers of them available. As you’ve noticed, most of the action is now taking place with special operations troops who were recruited and funded by the Bush Administration.” When asked whether President Obama could take any credit for using the drone program “to great effect,” North stated, “[The President] is taking some of the advice provided by the military commanders on the battlefield, using assets that were not available during the Bush Administration. But they had the foresight to go ahead and start building these things, paying for them, and recruiting the people—I’m talking specifically now about the special operators—who could go on the ground and validate that the target was the real thing.” North also called the United States intervention in Libya a failure because of the Obama Administration’s decision to not send American combat troops into Libya.

In an April 29, 2011 address at the NRA annual convention, North thanked the crowd for “making Fox News number one in America.” In his remarks, he asked, “Wouldn’t it be nice to have a president of the United States who respects the sanctity of human life and the sanctity of marriage as something we Americans hold dear?” North also questioned Obama’s credentials on foreign policy, saying, “We need a Commander in Chief who’s unafraid to describe our enemies as who they are. They’re not extremists. They’re radical Islamic terrorists that threaten this country.” Finally, he added, “We need a Commander in Chief who cares more about the troops he leads than his birth certificate.”

North appeared on “Hannity” on March 21, 2011 and expressed his belief that it is “beyond” President Barack Obama to serve as Commander and Chief. “[He] has done nothing but apologize for America” since becoming President, North said of Obama.

In a December 2010 editorial for Fox News in opposition to the potential repeal of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, North wrote: “Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Hideki Tojo tried and failed. Mao Zedong, Nikita Khrushchev and Ho Chi Minh couldn’t do it. But Commander-in-Chief Barack Obama may well succeed where others could not. If he has his way, he will demolish the finest force for good in the history of mankind—the U.S. Armed Forces.”

North alluded to the potential repeal of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy In a June 2010 opinion piece for Fox News, writing, “The present commander-in-chief has decided to treat the young men and women of our military like lab rats in a radical social-engineering experiment.”

On February 4, 2010, North appeared on “Hannity” and said that a repeal of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy would lead to, “NAMBLA [North American Man/Boy Love Association] members, same-sex marriages [in the Armed Forces]. Are chaplains in the U.S. military going to be required to perform those kinds of rituals? Do they get government housing?”

In an April 3, 2009 op-ed for the Patriot Post, North wrote, “Julius Caesar was murdered by Brutus and his friends in the Roman legislature on the ides of March 44 B.C. Free enterprise died at the hands of Barack and his friends in the American legislature on the 30th of March 2009 [when General Motors Chair and CEO Rick Wagoner stepped down after being asked to resign by the Obama administration as part of the government’s conditions for GM and Chrysler to restructure before receiving more federal aid]. The following day, those same ministers of American government completed the death warrant for civic duty in our republic. They called it the "Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act." The bill passed—as did the killing of Caesar—with overwhelming support from the legislature.” The Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act funds AmeriCorps and other organizations that promote volunteerism.

On June 2, 2008, North praised Republican presidential candidate John McCain by saying: “In all the many months that I’ve spent covering these young Americans on the battlefield there’s only one candidate running for public office who I have seen in places like Ramadi or Fallujah. There’s only one candidate running for president of the United States who has said, ‘I will not fail you.’ There is only one candidate running for president of the United States who has said, ‘I have a formula for victory and I will not abandon your fight.’ I have heard him tell that to the young Americans he has seen and listened to on the battlefield. My friends, I don’t believe our nation can handle four years of Barack Obama. I don’t believe our nation can survive abandoning the cause for which these young Americans have fought.”

North was a central figure in the Iran-Contra Affair. The political scandal, which came to light in November 1986, involved U.S. officials violating an arms embargo to sell weapons to Iran, and then using the residual profits to fund Contra rebels in Nicaragua. North oversaw the transfer of the arms profits to the Contras, who engaged in widespread human rights abuses, including the rape and murder of civilians. They also had links to drug traffickers. In July 1987, North admitted to lying to Congress and shredding important documents related to the Iran-Contra scheme, which he referred to as a “neat idea.” He was later indicted on 16 felony counts before being convicted on three of them in 1989. The conviction was vacated in 1990.

On May, 5 1985, North wrote to Admiral John Poindexter, “You will recall that over the years Manuel Noriega in Panama and I have developed a fairly good relationship.” At the time North was attempting to strike a deal where the United States would help improve the dictator’s image in exchange for Noriega’s help in defeating the Sandinistas. North’s exchange with Poindexter also revealed that North had met Noriega on a boat on the Potomac River.