The Myth of the Interventionist Revival

A lot of the criticism of Rand Paul's anti-interventionist foreign policy pronouncements, as well as his high profile opposition to the NSA's spying on Americans, is couched in terms of "that was then, this is now." The argument goes something like this: with ISIS on...

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Salafists Gaining Ground

The main impact of US intervention in the Middle East has been to destabilize, polarize, and radicalize the region. Especially, it has fomented a vast, multi-country, new sectarian civil war between Sunni and Shiite Muslims. On each side, the most sectarian forces...

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Hard Truths About Iraq

In Washington, a town in which most people, both government and non-government employees, are involved, one way or another, in public relations spin, the thing that will get you in the most trouble is telling the simple truth. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter...

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