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...
Christopher Mott makes the case for restoring normal relations with Venezuela:Danielle Pletka wants you to know that she thinks targeted killing “works”:Targeted killing has become a tool of statecraft because it works, in the sense that it achieves the limited goals...
Christopher Mott makes the case for restoring normal relations with Venezuela:With attachment to Guaido fading, Washington should now disavow interference in Caracas’s internal affairs and offer sanctions relief as an easy price to pay for setting up a full and robust...
H.R. McMaster and Gabriel Scheinmann try their hands at comedy:Contrary to the narrative of US belligerence and imperialism that has been impressed on countless university students, the United States has, since the end of World War II, largely pursued a policy of...
Steven Cook and Martin Indyk urge Biden to bind the US even more tightly to Saudi Arabia:Biden should instead consider a more fundamental reconceptualization of the bilateral relationship. What both countries need is a new compact that focuses on countering a major...
Eric Brewer argues that Iran’s shorter “breakout” time to acquiring enough fissile material for a nuclear weapon requires the U.S. to be ready to attack much more quickly:The most impactful step the United States could take, however, would be to shorten military...
William Neuman makes a compelling case for lifting broad sanctions on Venezuela:The oil embargo and other general sanctions targeting the economy are deeply unpopular in Venezuela. Many opposition politicians have come out against them, although Guaidó and some...
