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A Few Questions for Trump's Most Loyal Supporters Apr. 18, 2017
Generally speaking, there are two fundamental types of critiques of the controversial Donald Trump: ... Read More
Transactional President Apr. 16, 2017
WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump flew to Palm Beach Thursday for Easter weekend, there w... Read More
The Missiles of Holy Week and the Rule of Law Apr. 13, 2017
The history of the world is the history of violence. I had planned to write this column about the mo... Read More
In Syria, the Wrong Kind of Humanitarian Intervention Apr. 13, 2017
Americans are a generous and selfless people, ever eager to improve the lives of foreigners cursed t... Read More
The President Is Allowed to Change His Mind Apr. 13, 2017
WASHINGTON — It looks like former President Obama's national security adviser Susan Rice will ... Read More
Obama Claimed 'All' of Syria's Chemical Weapons Had Been Eliminated Apr. 13, 2017
The Obama administration claimed that it negotiated with Syria and Russia to eliminate "100 percent"... Read More
Warrior Trump Apr. 12, 2017
Somehow, firing Tomahawk missiles at Syria suddenly changed people's opinions of President Trump. No... Read More
Remove and Replace Assad? Apr. 12, 2017
When President George W. Bush decided he wanted to remove and replace Saddam Hussein, he made a bad ... Read More
Syria: Gas Attacks and a World That Still Tolerates Them Apr. 11, 2017
To be a child in war-ravaged Syria is to know fear and suffering, death and destruction. So imagine ... 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
An Indispensable Nation After All Apr. 11, 2017
We start to see again why Madeleine Albright, when she was secretary of state, called America "the i... 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
Trump's Syriana Apr. 08, 2017
WASHINGTON — When Donald Trump was a private individual in 2013, he used Twitter to tell Presi... Read More
First Step Down a Dangerous Path Apr. 07, 2017
For the moment, Donald Trump's bombing of a military airfield in Syria has earned him a measure of s... Read More
Obama's Red Line Horror Apr. 05, 2017
Syria's Assad regime has once again used banned chemical weapons to inflict mass casualties on civil... Read More
How the Travel Ban Helps Terrorists Feb. 12, 2017
If you're afraid that terrorists from a particular country will come to kill your citizens, it makes... Read More
Trump's Rational Response to Testimony of Obama's CIA, FBI Feb. 08, 2017
FBI Director James Comey and then-CIA Director John Brennan — both appointed by President Bara... Read More
Moral Supremacy and Mr. Putin Feb. 07, 2017
Is Donald Trump to be allowed to craft a foreign policy based on the ideas on which he ran and won t... Read More
Around the World, Tyrants Ascendant Dec. 25, 2016
John McCain is fond of saying, "It's always darkest just before it goes totally black." According to... Read More
Lessons of Aleppo -- for Trump Dec. 16, 2016
In this world, it is often dangerous to be an enemy of the United States, said Henry Kissinger in 19... Read More
