Kori Schake faults Biden for not being belligerent and militaristic enough:The administration appears to lack an effective strategy for the dangers posed by a nuclear-armed North Korea beyond the empty statements that we will not allow North Korea to have nuclear...
Biden once again gave some ill-advised answers on Taiwan in an interview with 60 Minutes:"But would U.S. forces defend the island?" Pelley asked."Yes, if in fact there was an unprecedented attack," Mr. Biden said."So unlike Ukraine, to be...
Nigel Biggar writes a “Christian defense of the American empire” and it concludes with the same recycled hegemonist nonsense that you would expect:The United States is not the only trustee of such values and institutions, but, thanks to the gifts of providence and its...
Samuel Charap and Mike Mazarr have responded to Vindman’s fantasy history about U.S. Russia policy:US policy toward post-Soviet Russia has never come close to the extreme accommodationism that Vindman describes. Washington did try to forge a partnership with Moscow,...
Ali A. Olomi calls attention to the damage being done by US sanctions and asset freezes in Afghanistan:Despite militarily withdrawing, the United States continues to pursue a policy of financially starving Afghanistan of desperately needed funds in an attempt to force...
Bob Wright identifies a recent article as an example of Blobbish self-parody:Spencer-Churchill argues that “Invade that sovereign state!” can be a good answer – so long as the sovereign state is the Solomon Islands and the invader is the United States or Australia....
Eric Miller wants to sound the alarm about future Chinese bases in Africa, but mostly he just recycles the same unpersuasive claims we have been hearing for months:Chinese military basing efforts abroad have become a topic of great international interest and scrutiny....
Walter Russell Mead doesn’t want us to bicker and argue over who killed who:If the U.S. is going to develop an effective response to this combination of strategic threats, our political leaders will have to move beyond finger pointing and blame games over the fate of...
Gideon Levy condemns the State Department’s whitewashing of the murder of Shireen Abu Akleh:It’s difficult to imagine a more clumsy, unprofessional, ridiculous and even insulting mobilization in the service of Israeli propaganda. Once again it has been proven that...
Tom McTague praises America’s “necessary myth”:The dumb simplicity of America’s interventions is often infuriating and obtuse, or even disastrously naive and destructive. It exists in people like Neal and Holbrooke, Bush and Biden. And yet if America stops believing...
