Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Aside from being laughed at by the audience, Trump achieved very little in his speech to the U.N. General Assembly today. The president talked a lot about the importance of sovereignty, and then called on the rest of...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Mike Pompeo’s certification earlier this month that the Saudi coalition was working to reduce harm to civilians in Yemen was an obvious sham. According to a new report in The Wall Street Journal, Pompeo made the...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Trump is floating the possibility of establishing a permanent U.S. military base in Poland:President Donald Trump said the U.S. is looking “very seriously” at establishing a permanent military base in...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.The Associated Press reports on the appalling starvation that is slowly killing millions of people in Yemen:In a remote pocket of northern Yemen, many families with starving children have nothing to eat but the leaves...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.The Trump administration is once again threatening to launch an illegal attack against the Syrian government:The United States is threatening to attack Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime for a third time...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Paul Pillar capably sums up why supporting the war on Yemen is not in America’s interest: Neither does the administration’s policy toward the Yemeni war accord with a realist perspective of where U.S....
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.USA Today published a very extensive report on conditions inside Iran this week. Here is a description of the response to the reimposition of U.S. sanctions:Still, despite rhetoric from the Trump administration and some...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.The New York Times also calls for a halt to U.S. support for the war on Yemen:Saudi Arabia and its allies seem to have little compunction about slaughtering children as long as more bombs can be bought, so it’s up to...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative. The Norwegian Refugee Council condemned yesterday’s airstrike on civilians fleeing Hodeidah: We are appalled by conflict that appears entirely ungoverned by the laws of war and astounded at the silence of the many...
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...
