The ‘Blob’ Thrives on the Myth of ‘Retreat’
John Glaser reviews Trump’s foreign policy record, and dismisses claims that it represents “retreat” from the world: But it doesn’t accurately describe Trump’s foreign policy, which hasn’t backed away...
View ArticleForeign Policy and Trump’s First SOTU
Like all State of the Union addresses, Trump’s first SOTU was full of boilerplate rhetoric and contained relatively few interesting remarks. The foreign policy section was not very long and fortunately...
View ArticleHaley’s Nuclear Deal Delusions
Nikki Haley unwittingly made a very revealing comment about the Trump administration’s hostility to the nuclear deal with Iran: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Tuesday that...
View Article‘Restoring Democracy’ Is the New Code for Regime Change
NBC News reports on the Trump administration’s regime change-in-all-but-name policy for Iran: “We certainly don’t like this regime. It’s a deeply hypocritical religious dictatorship that robs its...
View Article‘Cooking’ and Ignoring Intelligence on Iran
The president’s interview on Face the Nation this morning contained some remarkable revisionism on his part on the Iraq war: MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to move on here but I should say your intel chiefs...
View ArticleToday’s Rift with Europe Echoes the Iraq War Debate
Pence repeated his tone-deaf demands to our allies to quit the nuclear deal at the Munich Security Conference over the weekend. The response from the Europeans was even frostier than it had been in...
View ArticleThe U.S. Can’t ‘Fix’ Venezuela
Jonathan Swan reports on the roots of Trump’s interest in meddling in Venezuela: “The president sees this country with extraordinary economic potential, which has been run into the ground,” Rubio told...
View ArticlePreventive War Is Always Unjust
David French defends one of the great crimes of the 21st century: Today is the 16th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, and Twitter is alive with condemnations of the conflict — countered by precious...
View ArticleDebunking Pompeo’s Lie About Iran and Al Qaeda
Time calls attention to one of Mike Pompeo’s many lies: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s claim that Iran and Al Qaeda are collaborating is at best an exaggeration that is not supported by any available...
View ArticleDon’t Fall for Pompeo’s Propaganda
Michael Hirsh reports on the bogus Iran-Al Qaeda connection that the Trump administration has been trying to use to provide a pretext for an attack. He quotes Seth Jones, a counter-terrorism specialist...
View ArticleTrump’s Dangerous Iran Delusions
The president repeated another one of his Iran delusions today: #Trump to FOX: “Had I not been elected president #Iran would have taken — over #SaudiArabia, they would have taken over the entire Middle...
View ArticleA Failed Attempt to Rehabilitate Bush’s Disastrous Foreign Policy
Peter Feaver and Will Inboden try to make the case that George W. Bush did not undermine American power and international order when his entire record is taken into account: The question is not whether...
View ArticleBiden’s Iraq War Revisionism
Former Vice President Biden has foolishly tried to claim that he immediately turned against the Iraq war after it started: "Immediately, that moment it started, I came out against the war at that...
View ArticleAttack of the Revisionists
Walter Russell Mead engages in some revisionism of his own here: The geopolitical consequences of a weakened Trump administration will also be significant. Revisionist powers large and small are more...
View ArticleNon-Interventionism and Thinking Seriously About Unnecessary Wars
Richard Fontaine claims that there is now a consensus for military restraint, and he believes the consensus to be wrong: Faced with such a sweeping political consensus, one might conclude that...
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