I was watching this conversation between Bob Wright and Tom Wright, and I found it to be very frustrating. The discussion about the meaning and definition of the “Blob” could have been productive, but I don’t think it was. The conversation kept coming back to the...
Mike Pence joins the long and growing list of current and former elected officials and retired officers to discredit themselves by shilling for the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), the deranged cult and “former” terrorist organization that seeks regime change in Iran and...
Michael Singh wants the Biden administration to threaten Iran with preventive war:But the Biden administration should also prepare for the eventuality that diplomatic and economic pressure will not be enough to deter Iran’s leadership from its pursuit of nuclear...
The Washington Times reports rather melodramatically about Lloyd Austin’s scheduled visits to Ukraine and Georgia this week:Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will stress this week that there is an “open door to NATO” for Ukraine and Georgia, the two nations on the front...
The Washington Post is still banging the drum for foreign intervention in Haiti:Those who called for international intervention following Mr. Moïse’s killing, including this page, have been criticized for overlooking the checkered history of such attempts in the past,...
Nikki Haley reminds us why we are fortunate that she is no longer representing our country at the U.N.:Iran and China have recently taken their alliance a step further. Last year, they finalized a “strategic partnership” that commits Beijing to investing $400 billion...
Matthew Kroenig cannot make a case that Taiwan matters more to the U.S. than it does to China, so he tries to make a war over Taiwan into being about something much broader than it would be:I wouldn’t be so quick to cede the balance of interests to Beijing. The United...
Hal Brands makes a dubious assertion:America may say that it’s done with nation-building, but don’t believe it.Following a disillusioning war in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden declared an end to “an era of major military operations to remake other countries.”...
Annelle Sheline comments on the passage of Rep. Ro Khanna’s amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would cut off all assistance to Saudi Arabia for the war on Yemen:The House voted today to pass Rep. Ro Khanna’s amendment to end US support for Saudi...
Last week, The New York Times published an article about Afghanistan and the foreign policy “Blob,” and it was written in a way that mocked the term and the critics that use it. The funny thing is that the article reproduced exactly the sort of groupthink and...
