From The American Conservative:Peter Beinart makes a good case that broad sanctions regimes are immoral and destructive:Why are policies that have proved so ineffective and immoral so hard to undo? Because abandoning them would require admitting hard truths: North...
Biden’s Grab-Bag Foreign Policy Speech
From The American Conservative:Yesterday the president delivered his first foreign policy address since taking office, and he chose to give it at the State Department. The location underscored Biden’s message that “diplomacy is back,” and the visit...
US Support for the Saudi Coalition War on Yemen Is Finally Ending
From The American Conservative: Annelle Sheline comments on the encouraging news that President Biden will shortly announce the end of U.S. support for Saudi coalition “offensive operations” in Yemen: Biden’s team may see the withdrawal of US support...
Iran Hawks’ Latest Smear Campaign Has Already Failed
From The American Conservative:Bret Stephens writes a rather disingenuous column promoting the idea of a “dissidents first” foreign policy. It is a cynical argument that focuses only on dissidents that speak out against adversaries, and it ignores that the...
Pompeo’s Scorched Earth Campaign
From The American Conservative:Paul Pillar comments on Mike Pompeo’s latest string of destructive acts and dishonest claims as Trump’s term comes to an end. Here he addresses Pompeo’s distortions and exaggerations of the relationship between Iran and...
A Malevolent Decision That Will Kill Countless Yemenis
From The American Conservative:The Trump administration is moving ahead with the disastrous decision to label the Houthis a foreign terrorist organization:The Trump administration is preparing to designate Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi insurgents a terrorist organization...
An Aggressive China Policy Is a Recipe for More Endless Wars
From The American Conservative:Robert Farley explains why the U.S. can’t end endless wars if it pursues an aggressive China policy:The problem is straightforward: Any effort to characterize China as an existential threat to the United States necessarily implies...
Cuba and Washington’s Absurd Overuse of Sanctions
From The American Conservative:Mike Pompeo is reportedly considering adding Cuba to the list of state sponsors of terrorism in another last-minute move to box in the incoming administration:State Department officials have drawn up a proposal to designate Cuba as a...
Lloyd Austin and the War on Yemen
From The American Conservative:Mark Perry has written an excellent report on Lloyd Austin’s policy views. Among other things, Perry finds that Austin was strongly opposed to the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen when he was in charge of Centcom: What’s...
The Latest Phony ‘Peace’ Deal Is Stoking Conflict
From The American Conservative:Mitchell Plitnick examines the Trump administration’s decision to recognize Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara:The agreement with Morocco combines the worst of both the Abraham Accords with the UAE and Bahrain and the...


