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The Dumbest Fallacy in Foreign Policy Dec. 18, 2024
Last week, after 50 years of tyranny and repression, the government of Bashar Assad fell in Syria. I... Read More
Who Will Protect Syrian Christians? Dec. 11, 2024
It started with a suicide bomber. On Sept. 4, 2013, a terrorist group launched an attack on a profou... Read More
Will Post-Assad Syria Acquire a Neo-Ottoman Turkish Yoke? Dec. 11, 2024
In late summer 2012, Syrian Prime Minister Riyad Hijab denounced his boss, dictator Bashar al-Assad,... Read More
Russian and Chinese Shows of Force Confront Biden Administration Apr. 26, 2021
Russia and China are conducting multiple probing operations intended to test President Biden's admin... Read More
Russian and Chinese Shows of Force Confront Biden Administration Apr. 21, 2021
Russia and China are conducting multiple probing operations intended to test President Biden's admin... Read More
Leveraging Corrupt Media, China Draws a Red Line for Biden Administration Feb. 03, 2021
February 2021 reprises a red-line drama, not yet as tragedy and not as farce but definitely as a thr... Read More
Leveraging Corrupt Media, China Draws a Red Line for Biden Administration Feb. 03, 2021
February 2021 reprises a red-line drama, not yet as tragedy and not as farce but definitely as a thr... Read More
Red Lines & Lost Credibility Nov. 07, 2017
A major goal of this Asia trip, said National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster, is to rally allies to... Read More
After the ISIS War, a US-Russia Collision? Jun. 20, 2017
Sunday, a Navy F-18 Hornet shot down a Syrian air force jet, an act of war against a nation with whi... Read More
An Indispensable Nation After All Apr. 11, 2017
We start to see again why Madeleine Albright, when she was secretary of state, called America "the i... Read More
Trump's Syriana Apr. 08, 2017
WASHINGTON — When Donald Trump was a private individual in 2013, he used Twitter to tell Presi... Read More
First Step Down a Dangerous Path Apr. 07, 2017
For the moment, Donald Trump's bombing of a military airfield in Syria has earned him a measure of s... Read More
Moral Supremacy and Mr. Putin Feb. 07, 2017
Is Donald Trump to be allowed to craft a foreign policy based on the ideas on which he ran and won t... Read More
Lessons of Aleppo -- for Trump Dec. 16, 2016
In this world, it is often dangerous to be an enemy of the United States, said Henry Kissinger in 19... Read More
Time Comes to Look at Support for Saudi Arabia Sep. 07, 2016
When the United States has friends like Saudi Arabia, who needs enemies? Last month, Congress releas... Read More
Syria: Their War, Not Ours Aug. 30, 2016
The debacle that is U.S. Syria policy is today on naked display. NATO ally Turkey and U.S.-backed Ar... Read More
The Forever War Sep. 12, 2014
The strategy that President Obama laid out Wednesday night to "degrade and ultimately destroy the te... Read More
Tell the Imperial President: No More Wars! Jul. 01, 2014
Barack Obama has asked Congress for $500 million to train and arm rebels of the Free Syrian Army who... Read More
Questions for Obama Jun. 20, 2014
A few questions for President Barack Obama. At your press conference, you said, "It is in our nation... Read More
Up Close and Personal With George W. Bush's Horrifying Legacy Jun. 18, 2014
The Iraq disaster remains George W. Bush's enduring folly, and the Republican attempt to shift the b... Read More
