Originally appeared at The American Conservative.The New York Times reports that U.S. “retaliatory” strikes in Iraq ended up killing regular Iraqi soldiers and policemen and one civilian:Iraqi military officials strongly condemned the United States...
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Van Jackson comments on the comparisons being made between the wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan, especially in this article by George Herring. Jackson notes that ending U.S. involvement in these unwinnable wars has a...
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Stephen Wertheim considers Biden’s restorationist foreign policy and finds it seriously wanting:Biden deserves credit for stating flatly that he would end U.S. support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen. But he does...
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.The Wall Street Journal reports on Mohammed bin Salman’s latest purge:Saudi Arabian authorities detained two of the kingdom’s most prominent figures for an alleged coup attempt, further consolidating the power of...
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Samuel Moyn reviews Samantha Power’s memoir to devastating effect. He begins his essay with a withering observation and never lets up:At her first dinner with future president Barack Obama, a forty-five-minute...
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.As Rod Dreher has already observed, Warren destroyed Bloomberg in the debate last night with her attacks on him. She has shown would-be Bloomberg voters what a terrible candidate he is, and that does everyone a great...
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.The Saudi coalition struck and killed dozens of civilians in response to the apparent downing of one of their jets:Thirty-one people were killed in air strikes on Yemen Saturday, the United Nations said, the victims of...
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Iraqi military and intelligence officials claim that the original December 27 attack that led to U.S. strikes on an Iraqi militia and Qassem Soleimani was probably not carried out by Kata’ib Hezbollah at all, but...
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Tom Friedman’s latest column obviously wasn’t fact-checked before it was published:And then, a few weeks later, Trump ordered the killing of Suleimani, an action that required him to shift more troops into...
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.John Kerry supports Biden for the Democratic nomination, and he has been acting as a campaign surrogate to defend Biden’s vote for the Iraq war authorization in 2002. Kerry also voted for the 2002 AUMF, so he has...
