The top official in the Biden administration working on the Middle East gets something important very wrong. Brett McGurk said this last week:And when it came to military force for behavior change, that is a pretty fuzzy objective for a military force. When it comes...
Walter Russell Mead tries his hand at being a conspiracy theorist:Our adversaries – and some of our allies as well as several American policy makers and commentators – believe that a polarized America is locked into decline and retreat. This is not, the revisionist...
NBC News reports on the bankrupt “Plan B” options being considered by the Biden administration if nuclear talks in Vienna aren’t successful:As Iran and world powers prepare to resume negotiations next week on reviving a nuclear deal, the U.S. and its allies are...
Richard Haass dismisses negotiations in Vienna to salvage the nuclear deal, and then makes this assertion:And even if they do [succeed], any agreement will not resolve Iran’s push for regional primacy – or for nuclear weapons.If Iran were seeking “regional primacy,”...
Sarah Chayes has written what may be one of the most dastardly op-eds I have ever read. She warns against providing aid to Afghanistan too quickly because that would reduce Western “leverage” over the Taliban:Western countries should not move too fast. Just because...
Some of the lingering costs of the January 2020 Soleimani assassination include the injuries to U.S. personnel that suffered traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) in the retaliatory Iranian missile attack:He used to help run armed drone operations as part of the unit, but...
Joe Lieberman reminds us that he absolutely does not want any agreement with Iran:Akbar Shahid Ahmed reports on the Biden administration’s unwillingness to hold the Saudi government accountable for its crimes, including the crimes of the crown prince:For now, Biden’s...
Joe Lieberman reminds us that he absolutely does not want any agreement with Iran:Achieving an agreement with Iran that could get 67 votes in the Senate wouldn’t be easy, but it is worth the effort. It would restore the longtime bipartisan consensus in Washington...
Michael Gerson doesn’t like Geoffrey Wheatcroft’s new book on Churchill:The charge that he maliciously caused the Bengal famine – in the sense that Joseph Stalin caused the Ukrainian famine – seems half-baked.Gerson’s complaint against the book is that he thinks the...
The Wall Street Journal ran a propaganda hit piece against critics of normalization agreements with Israel that was ridiculous even by their extremely low standards:The question is why the regime is getting an intellectual assist from advocacy groups on the American...
