The White House says that Biden is “absolutely” committed to keeping US troops in Syria:Kirby added that Biden is “absolutely” committed to keeping American troops in Syria, where they are stationed to fight back any remnants of ISIS forces.US troops have no business...
Near the end of an Associated Press report on Vice President Harris’ visit to Africa this week, John Kirby, a national security spokesman for the White House, was quoted saying this:John Kirby, a White House national security spokesman, said this past week that...
The AUKUS deal for nuclear-powered submarines has come under a lot of fire in Australia this week: Stephen Wertheim makes a compelling case that the Iraq war was the result of pursuing a strategy of primacy, and the US has still not abandoned that pursuit:After the...
The AUKUS deal for nuclear-powered submarines has come under a lot of fire in Australia this week:Ex-Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating condemned the center-left Labor government’s deal with the US and UK to obtain nuclear submarines, saying the nation’s military...
State Department spokesman Ned Price answered a question on North Korea diplomacy today, and his answer unwittingly demonstrated the folly of the US approach:On your first question, it unfortunately is a purely hypothetical question. It’s an academic question, because...
In a new paper for the Cato Institute, Justin Logan gets to the heart of why US allies don’t take on a larger share of the burden for their own security: The only way to produce more equitable burdensharing is to make allies doubt the strength of the US commitment:...
Dennis Ross just can’t get enough saber-rattling against Iran:Instead, Blinken or President Joe Biden should announce that although the U.S. favors diplomacy for resolving the threat of the Iranian nuclear program, the Iranians continue to demonstrate that they don’t;...
Bill Barr wants to attack Mexico:America can no longer tolerate narco-terrorist cartels. Operating from havens in Mexico, their production of deadly drugs on an industrial scale is flooding our country with this poison. The time is long past to deal with this outrage...
While their preferred policies have brought war closer in the Middle East, it is not surprising that Iran hawks want to talk about something else. The Wall Street Journal editors fume about two (count them, two!) Iranian ships docking in Brazil:The arrival of two...
Walter Russell Mead turns reality on its head:Worse, Iran’s inexorable march toward nuclear weapons [bold mine-DL], combined with its deepening partnership with Russia, is driving the Middle East steadily closer to a war that is likely to engage the U.S.—one that the...
