MEMORANDUM FOR: The President FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) SUBJECT: Urgent Action on UkraineThe buck stops with you, Mr. President. If you want to stop a bloody civil war between east and west Ukraine and avert Russian military...
Over at Foreign Policy, Christopher J. Fettweis argues the hysteria in Washington over Ukraine is based on "pathological beliefs" about foreign policy. "The United States has no interest at stake in eastern Ukraine or Crimea," Fettweis writes. "It is hard to imagine...
Reprinted from LobeLog with permission of the author.I’m supposed to be editing right now, but I’ve discovered something wonderful enough to put aside my responsibilities for a moment and write about it here.The short film posted above is part of...
The much-touted debate on NSA spying sponsored by Canada’s Aurea Foundation between Michael Hayden and Alan Dershowitz on one side and Glenn Greenwald and Alexis Ohanian had few surprises -- except for the surprise appearance of Edward Snowden in a video made for the...
Campaign for Liberty, the political action group founded by Ron Paul, led the fight to audit the Federal Reserve. Now the IRS is demanding information about its donors. But no one receives a tax deduction for donations to Campaign for Liberty and the IRS is not...
Over at The Dish, Andrew Sullivan notes the difference in opinion between the elites and the general public on foreign policy. Elites in New York and Washington, DC are upset that Obama hasn't been forceful enough, whereas the public, as I noted yesterday, in greater...
It is regrettable that the Washington Post's editorials on foreign policy are rarely as profound as its editorial cartoons. Someone could easily compile a list of Washington Post editorials and guest articles by bellicose nitwits urging U.S. preemptive strikes for...
Israel's primary criticism of the Palestinian side is that they are not engaging in "good faith negotiations," they are not "partners for peace." As I've noted several times in the past few weeks, that critique rings hypocritical given Israel's negotiating positions....
This morning's Wall Street Journal has the following headline on the front page: "Americans Want to Pull Back From World Stage, Poll Finds." Americans in large numbers want the U.S. to reduce its role in world affairs even as a showdown with Russia over Ukraine...
Jon Utley, the publisher of American Conservative and one of the most dedicated and principled pro-freedom and antiwar activists in the nation, celebrated his 80th birthday last month. Hundreds of folks gathered at D.C.’s Metropolitan Club to hear him speak about his...
