David Brooks tells a tale of sanitized U.S. foreign policy and likens our two major failed wars of the twenty-first century to a bad night of pitching:For most of the past century, human dignity had a friend – the United States of America. We are a deeply flawed and...
A new article on Biden and Iran in The New York Times typifies the serious flaws in a lot of American reporting about Iran and related issues. David Sanger frames Biden’s approach to Iran as a “balancing act” between sometimes bombing Iranian-backed Iraqi militias and...
Francis Suarez, the mayor of Miami, just casually suggested military action against Cuba today:“Are you suggesting air strikes in Cuba?” MacCallum interrupted. “What I’m suggesting is that that option is one that has to be explored and cannot be just simply discarded...
The Haitian interim prime minister recently requested U.S. military assistance following the assassination of the president, but there is significant popular opposition to having US forces in Haiti:Intellectuals and members of Haiti’s civil society quickly criticized...
Janan Ganesh has written another exceptionally odd column about U.S.-China rivalry:And so an era of non-state enemies was always going to be awkward for the US. A superpower tussle is a beguiling return to the familiar. Washington’s enthusiasm for the China contest is...
The Biden administration’s effort to reenter the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is languishing, and there is an increasing likelihood that the nuclear deal won’t be salvaged:Hopes for a quick re-entry to the accord that Donald Trump abandoned have dimmed...
Russia and China have renewed their treaty of friendship, and their respective leaders claimed that the relationship was stronger than ever:Beijing and Moscow have moved to consolidate ties by renewing a 20-year-old friendship treaty, weeks after the Russian and US...
Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in his home by gunmen earlier today. The last time that a Haitian president was assassinated, the U.S. intervened militarily and then occupied the country for the next 19 years. There is absolutely no good reason why...
From The American Conservative:Bruce Riedel calls for the U.S. to pressure the Saudi coalition to end their blockade of Yemen:For the war to end, the Biden administration will need to lay out a political process that entices the Houthis to a ceasefire. A good place to...
From The American Conservative:Laura Rozen reports on the Iranian announcement that their government will cease its voluntary implementation with the IAEA’s Additional Protocol next week as part of the legislation adopted following the murder of Mohsen...
