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We Still Need to Defeat Assad, Not Just ISIS

An argument making the rounds is that the al-Assad regime would make the most effective ally for the United States ...
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Would Cicero Have Approved of Putins War in Ukraine?

I wonder what Marcus Tullius Cicero would have thought about Vladimir Putin. On one hand, the orator might not have disapproved. ...
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For Russia, Death by a Thousand Aid Convoys

Russia has been rolling out the humanitarian lingo to justify its ongoing proxy war with Ukraine. It has invoked the ...
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The Good, Bad, and Ugly about Intervening against ISIS

U.S. policy in Iraq is truly perplexing. Like many things President Obama does abroad, he appears to be trying to ...
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Is Iraqi Kurdistan on the Verge of Statehood?

To get into Iraqi Kurdistan from Turkey by car, as I found out a few years back, requires no visa ...
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The Myth of Obamas Realism

Never before in the history of the United States has there been such a yawning gap between the rhetoric of ...