US Forces Should Have Left Iraq and Syria Years Ago

There’s a lot that could be said about Gen. McKenzie’s op-ed defending a continued U.S. military presence in Syria and Iraq, but these claims are clearly untrue: In the end, American troops are in Syria and Iraq to prevent ISIS from being able to attack our homeland....

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‘Unfathomable Catastrophe’ Looms in Gaza

Michael Wahid Hanna calls on the U.S. to avert further catastrophe in Gaza: It is hard to imagine things getting worse, but an assault on Rafah would up the ante. The US is the only power that can stop it. To do so, it will have to exert a degree of pressure it has so...

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Re-Designating the Houthis Is a Major Error

The Biden administration will undo one of the few good things it has ever done: The Biden administration plans to put the Houthi rebel group back on one of its lists of terrorist organizations, days after the U.S. launched strikes on its facilities in Yemen in...

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The US Is Choosing Escalation and a Wider War

Spencer Ackerman is not impressed by defenses of the U.S./U.K. strikes in Yemen: The respectable set says that once the Houthis started attacking Red Sea shipping, a U.S. reprisal was inevitable. There's a lazy-person's truth here, for sure. Like the Royal Navy before...

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