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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...