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Sean Spicer's Regret Is Not Enough Apr. 12, 2017
It started in 1939. Nazi Germany launched its euthanasia program, using poison gas to kill people wh... Read More
Is Trump Enlisting in the War Party? Apr. 11, 2017
By firing off five dozen Tomahawk missiles at a military airfield, our "America First" president may... Read More
He Was Against Military Action in Syria Until He Was for It Apr. 11, 2017
Even many of President Donald Trump's most vocal critics are supporting his limited military respons... Read More
Trump's Risky Syria Gambit Apr. 09, 2017
In the worldview Donald Trump brought to the White House, all problems are easy. Fix the economy by ... Read More
How to Help Syrian Refugees Feb. 02, 2017
President Donald Trump's executive order on refugees was a combination of ineptitude, irrelevance, c... Read More
ISIS, Not Russia, Is the Enemy in Syria Oct. 07, 2016
Denouncing Russian air strikes on Aleppo as "barbaric," Mike Pence declared in Tuesday's debate: "Th... Read More
Syria: Their War, Not Ours Aug. 30, 2016
The debacle that is U.S. Syria policy is today on naked display. NATO ally Turkey and U.S.-backed Ar... Read More
Trump's Emasculation of Republican Foreign Policy Jul. 24, 2016
If there has been any constant in the Republican worldview over decades, it's that American strength... Read More
Obama's Foreign Policy Success Mar. 13, 2016
On the campaign trail, Barack Obama's foreign policy gets no love. Republicans portray it as weak, t... Read More
Notes From the Democrats' Debate Jan. 21, 2016
Fighting off the temptation to fall asleep during the most recent Democratic — and Donald Trum... Read More
Realism in Fighting the Islamic State Nov. 22, 2015
After a bloody series of terrorist attacks, the natural impulse is to respond with overwhelming forc... Read More
Putin Will Find Appearances Can Deceive Oct. 15, 2015
It's now a tenet of conventional wisdom that our policy in Syria is an embarrassment as well as a fl... Read More
Russia's Threat Oct. 09, 2015
When Barack Obama accepted the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, he predicted that the occ... Read More
War Party Targets Putin and Assad Oct. 06, 2015
Having established a base on the Syrian coast, Vladimir Putin last week began air strikes on ISIS an... Read More
Putin: Friend or Foe in Syria? Sep. 18, 2015
What Vladimir Putin is up to in Syria makes far more sense than what Barack Obama and John Kerry app... Read More
Is ISIS Coming to Damascus? Jun. 05, 2015
Who rises if Assad falls? That question, which has bedeviled U.S. experts on the Middle East, may n... Read More
In 2014, Frightened Rulers Did Scary Things Dec. 25, 2014
We all have tasks we try to get done before the end of the year, and Kim Jong Un's is amping up the ... Read More
Obama's War Is on Non-Sunnis, Not the Islamic State Sep. 24, 2014
I've said it before, but it bears repeating: I do not believe that Barack Obama is stupid. I don't b... Read More
Random Thoughts Nov. 26, 2013
Random thoughts on the passing scene: Many people take pride in defying the conventions of society.... Read More
