Originally appeared at The American Conservative.U.S. troops sent into Syria on an illegal and pointless mission to “take the oil” don’t know what they are supposed to be doing:US military commanders overseeing Syria operations are still waiting for...
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.The Pentagon used the president’s fixation on plunder to get him to agree to maintaining a U.S. military presence in Syria:A US official with knowledge of operations in Syria said that Trump’s interest in...
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.NATO expansion stumbles on mindlessly like a zombie:The U.S. Senate approved the accession of North Macedonia to NATO in a 91-2 vote Tuesday, meaning the small Balkan nation is a step closer to becoming NATO’s...
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Part of the small residual U.S. force that the Trump administration is keeping in Syria serves no real military purpose:“Al-Tanf has no obvious military purpose,” added Sam Heller of the International Crisis Group. “The...
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Yemen’s cholera epidemic and humanitarian crisis threaten to get even worse:A children’s advocacy group is warning of a spike in cholera cases in northern Yemen affecting hundreds of thousands of children and...
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.There are a lot of questionable assumptions informing this New York Times piece about Syria and U.S. support for the YPG. This quote from Stavridis sets the tone for the entire article:“In the course of American...
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld intends to mount a primary challenge against Trump. To that end, he spelled out his foreign policy views in a new article for Foreign Affairs. Unfortunately, Weld makes a number of...
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Lindsey Graham is an incorrigible warmonger, and he is also pig-ignorant about U.S. history:American isolationism: * Did not work before WWII. * Did not work before 9/11. * Will not work now. When it comes to fighting...
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.U.S. sanctions on Venezuela continue to take a terrible toll on the civilian population. Michael Fox reports:“We understand that the Pan American Health Organization has had to change the accounts [used to...
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.The latest Iran sanctions imposed by the Trump administration are yet another attack on the civilian population. Brian O’Toole explains:The CBI has already been sanctioned for at least two decades, generally...
