Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Turkish authorities claim to have audio and video recordings that prove Saudi agents tortured and then murdered Jamal Khashoggi:The recordings show that a Saudi security team detained Khashoggi in the consulate after he...
Saudi Recklessness and the Myth of ‘Withdrawal’
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Hal Brands makes an extremely shaky assertion about recent Saudi recklessness and U.S. involvement in the Middle East:Much of Saudi Arabia’s recent behavior has been linked to the rise of MBS, who seems driven by...
‘Maximum Pressure’ Is a Dead End
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Vali Nasr predicts that the Trump administration’s “maximum pressure” campaigns against North Korea and Iran won’t succeed:What North Korea is looking for is a step-by-step diplomatic process in...
Netanyahu’s ‘Nowhere Land’ Blunder
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave another one of his typical U.N. speeches last week in which he accused Iran of having a “secret atomic warehouse”:Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel...
Our Immoral and Irrational Yemen Policy
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Nicholas Kristof has written an excellent column attacking U.S. support for the war on Yemen:The United States is not directly bombing civilians in Yemen, but it is providing arms, intelligence and aerial refueling to...
Trump Pushes His Destructive Iran Policy at the UN
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...
Pompeo Lied to Congress About Yemen To Protect Arms Sales
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...
There Is No Need for a US Military Base in Poland
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...
The Starvation of Yemen and the Attack on Hodeidah
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...
A Third Attack on Syria Would Be Just as Illegal as the Last Two
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...


