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Trump Was Right About War Power -- in 2013 Apr. 18, 2018
Late on a Friday afternoon five years ago, Donald Trump put out a tweet that made sense. "The presid... Read More
Trump: Prisoner of the War Party? Apr. 17, 2018
"Ten days ago, President Trump was saying 'the United States should withdraw from Syria.' We convinc... Read More
Why Trump Shouldn't Attack Syria Apr. 15, 2018
When it comes to foreign affairs, the American public has two clear and powerful inclinations. The f... Read More
Is Trump Standing Down in Syria? Apr. 13, 2018
Wednesday morning, President Trump jolted the nation with a tweet that contained both threat and tau... Read More
An Attack Syria Did Not Do Apr. 11, 2018
The Airbus A300 was supposed to be on a short flight across the water to an affluent tourism center.... Read More
Has the War Party Hooked Trump? Apr. 10, 2018
With his Sunday tweet that Bashar Assad, "Animal Assad," ordered a gas attack on Syrian civilians, a... Read More
Syrian Showdown: Trump vs. the Generals Apr. 06, 2018
With ISIS on the run in Syria, President Trump this week declared that he intends to make good on hi... Read More
Don't Honor Abusers of Human Rights Feb. 23, 2018
With the attack last week that killed 17 people at a school in Parkland, Florida, it is easy to miss... Read More
Is US Being Sucked Into Syria's War? Feb. 13, 2018
Candidate Donald Trump may have promised to extricate us from Middle East wars, once ISIS and al-Qai... Read More
Too Many Wars. Too Many Enemies. Jan. 30, 2018
If Turkey is not bluffing, U.S. troops in Manbij, Syria, could be under fire by week's end, and NATO... Read More
A US-Turkish Clash in Syria? Jan. 19, 2018
The war for dominance in the Middle East, following the crushing of ISIS, appears about to commence ... Read More
Red Lines & Lost Credibility Nov. 07, 2017
A major goal of this Asia trip, said National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster, is to rally allies to... Read More
Are Our Mideast Wars Forever? Oct. 24, 2017
"The Kurds have no friends but the mountains," is an old lament. Last week, it must have been very m... Read More
Tribalism Marches On! Sep. 12, 2017
Recently, a columnist-friend, Matt Kenney, sent me a 25-year-old newspaper with his chiding that my ... Read More
Are America's Wars Just and Moral? Jul. 25, 2017
"One knowledgeable official estimates that the CIA-backed fighters may have killed or wounded 100,00... Read More
A New Iran Policy Jun. 30, 2017
Five-plus months into the Trump administration, the outlines of a new foreign policy remain unclear.... Read More
Will Syria Be the Next Libya -- or Worse? Jun. 21, 2017
The day before he ordered the U.S. military to intervene in Libya's civil war — without securi... Read More
After the ISIS War, a US-Russia Collision? Jun. 20, 2017
Sunday, a Navy F-18 Hornet shot down a Syrian air force jet, an act of war against a nation with whi... Read More
The Rise of the Generals Apr. 28, 2017
Has President Donald Trump outsourced foreign policy to the generals? So it would seem. Candidate Tr... Read More
Trump's Empty Bluster and Bombing Apr. 20, 2017
When terrorism raises its head, governments often take steps that are supposed to make us safer R... Read More
