The Syria Controversy Is A Proxy War Over America’s Foreign Policy
James Mattis’s departure highlights the broader legitimation crisis that results from American foreign policy being run without democratic accountability and against popular opinion.
4 Foreign Policy Establishment Myths About Leaving Syria, Debunked
Trump’s decision nips further mission creep in the bud and refocuses the national security bureaucracy on the right priorities.
I Used To Be A Conservative, But Not Anymore
Sometimes you reach a point—usually when you have something to promote—when what you once thought no longer is what you think now.
The DC Establishment Gets Almost Everything Wrong About Trump’s Saudi Posture
Yesterday, President Trump resisted public pressure and declined to significantly reorient American foreign policy in light of Saudi Arabia’s brutal killing of its political opponent Jamal Khashoggi.
America Is Abdicating Its Role In Global Leadership
A new book by Robert Kagan, ‘The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World,’ argues that the liberal world order is unraveling at a frightening pace, hastened in no small measure by its chief custodian and beneficiary.
America’s Forever War In Afghanistan Has Engulfed A New Generation
Americans born 17 years ago can now enlist to fight in a war that began before they were born. It’s time to end the Afghanistan war.
Why The World No Longer Needs The Cold War’s NATO
The old willingness to ‘pay any price, bear any burden’ is waning. There is no reason we should subsidize others’ luxuries, let alone when we have so many problems at home.
The Anti-Trump Conservative Firing Circle Is Wildly Out Of Touch With The American Electorate
Donald Trump, it turned out, read the conservative electorate much more accurately than the finest minds in Republican punditry. Their response is revenge.
Why The Trump Administration Isn’t Yet Positioned To Push For An Islamic Reformation
This habit of seeing Islam through a narrow lens reinforces the likelihood that the Washington memo pushing for Islamic reformation is a significant strategy. It won’t work as planned.
Why Intelligence Agencies’ Abuse Of Power Should Be A Litmus Test For The Right
Why are so many in Washington—even supposed conservatives—so eager to defend our powerful and unelected intelligence agencies?
Jennifer Rubin’s Flip-Flop On John Bolton Is Worthy Of Monty Python
Jennifer Rubin then: ‘If not Bolton himself, someone very much like him would be ideal in the No. 2 spot at State.’
John Bolton Is The National Security Advisor Trump Has Been Waiting For
John Bolton not only shares the president’s views on many foreign policy issues, he has decades of experience in government, politics, and American leadership.
Trump Is Keeping The Bush-Obama Foreign Policy Americans Hated
To Americans tired of military campaigns to social engineer governments in distant lands, Donald Trump suggested he might embrace a less belligerent foreign policy. That’s not happening.
Neocons’ Siren Song Has Divorced Republicans From Their Voters
You may have never heard of Robert Kagan or Max Boot, but they are hugely influential to the people you vote for.
Neocons, Iran Deal Opponents Celebrate Trump’s Foreign Policy At Summit
Speakers from both parties, including early and vociferous opponents of President Trump, trashed the deal while urging the president to take a harder line on Iran.
Why The Russia Story Says More About The Deep State Than It Does About Trump
The great risk is that intelligence bureaucracies become a government unto themselves, wholly unaccountable to elected officials. It’s already happening.
It’s Good For America, Not Russia, To Stop The CIA From Funding Syrian Jihadists
The idea that Russia orchestrated the Trump administration’s decision to end the CIA’s funding of jihadists is totally corrupt and offensive.
Republicans Need A Foreign Policy That’s Neither Isolationist Nor Hawkish
The GOP has struggled to define its foreign policy views, waffling between neoconservatism and anti-interventionism. But we need a third way.
Trump’s Team Is Starting To Think Seriously About Counterterrorism
If Trump’s shock presidential win taught us anything, it should be that the United States cannot be so stretched protecting others that it hurts its own citizens.
Trump’s Strike On Syria Betrays His Nationalist Supporters
If a few tear-jerker images can move President Trump (or anyone) to support a war that he always opposed, we’re in bad shape indeed.
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