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...
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...
Michael Hirsh frames the failure of U.S. Iran policy this way:After more than two decades of failed policies – fluctuating wildly between confrontation and cooperation – Washington and the West still find themselves facing down a hostile Iran.US policy has not been...
Nahal Toosi reports that Biden decided against removing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from the list of foreign terrorist organizations at least a month ago:President Joe Biden has finalized his decision to keep Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...
