Does AIPAC Command Congress?

In September, pro-Palestinian members of Congress banded together to stop the Democratic House leadership's bid to slip $1 billion in additional military foreign aid to Israel into must-pass legislation. Within days the funding reappeared in a standalone bill that...

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Separating the Cross and the Sword

What is a gaffe but an inadvertent uttering of an awkward truth? For instance:"This crusade, this war on terrorism, is going to take a while."The "gaffe" part of George W. Bush’s post-9/11 announcement that the War on Terror had begun was, of...

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Breaking the Nation-Building Habit

Hal Brands makes a dubious assertion:America may say that it’s done with nation-building, but don’t believe it.Following a disillusioning war in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden declared an end to “an era of major military operations to remake other countries.”...

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