60 Killed in Iraq as Mosul Battles Commence
Trumped!
I have to admit to being alternately puzzled and depressed that I seemed to be the only libertarian with a major public platform to take a nuanced view of Donald Trump. After all, many of his foreign policy positions echo the libertarian critique of our...
Mosul Fight Begins; 131 Killed Across Iraq
Funeral Bombed in Baghdad; 88 Killed in Iraq
Nuclear Standoff: Human Conscience Dismissed on a Technicality
Values the size of Planet Earth are at stake, as the American presidential election grows ever smaller, ever pettier, ever more certain that rancor triumphs over relevance. Can you imagine, let us say, an issue the size of global nuclear disarmament emerging in this...
How Kissinger Won the Middle East for America
I am writing this (may God forgive me) on Yom Kippur. Exactly 43 years ago, at this exact moment, the sirens sounded. We were sitting in the living room, looking out on one of Tel Aviv's main streets. The city was completely silent. No cars. No traffic of any kind. A...
Dozens Executed; 118 Killed in Iraq
Maintaining Influence in Afghanistan
Over the past few months, the Obama administration has renewed its efforts to strengthen its position in Afghanistan. In spite of the worsening death toll from the ongoing war, the Obama administration has made a series of new wartime commitments to ensure that the...
A Note to My Readers
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