Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Frederick Kagan invokes U.S. policy towards the USSR under Reagan as the model for a similar policy towards Iran today:The attractiveness of applying to Iran the set of policies that caused the relatively peaceful...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Ahmad Algohbary and Faisal Edroos report from Dahyan in the wake of the Saudi coalition massacre of dozens of children on August 9:Three days after the attack, victims’ families continued to throng to the scene of...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.There have been dozens of Saudi coalition airstrikes on civilian vehicles in Yemen this year, and coalition investigations almost never fault coalition forces:The bombing of a bus full of schoolchildren last week was...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Trump signed the new National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) this week. Among other things, the bill contained provisions that place conditions on U.S. support for the Saudi coalition. The president made clear in his...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Micah Zenko catches Secretary Mattis making an obviously false claim about U.S. involvement in the war on Yemen:Stunning assertion by Sec. Matts; 40 months into America's involvement in Yemen's civil war....
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.The U.S. response to the massacre of dozens of children and other civilians earlier today was predictably feeble:The U.S. State Department called on Thursday for the Saudi-led coalition to investigate reported air...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.The Associated Press reports on the Saudi coalition’s cooperation with al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in Yemen:A military coalition led by Saudi Arabia and backed by the United States has cut secret...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Jason Rezaian describes what renewed U.S. sanctions will do to the Iranian people:Although sanctions won’t target food and medicine directly, Iran will be cut from the international financial system, so imports...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Matt Taibbi comments on the widespread ignorance and lack of coverage of the war on Yemen and the world’s worst humanitarian crisis:Yemen features the wrong kinds of victims, lacks a useful partisan angle and,...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.The Washington Post reports on the aftermath of the April 23 wedding massacre Alex Potter reported on last month:The 22 fatalities included 12 of the dancers, four musicians and six villagers, including one who played...
