US Foreign Policy Has Come Full Circle

Surveying the wreckage US foreign policy has wrought from the privileged and comfortable vantage point of Washington, DC, should prompt the surveyor to wonder when exactly did things go so wrong?  Any reasonable list of dates might include April 12, 1945 as the point...

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Kurt Campbell: The Lobbyist As Diplomat

Last week, President Joe Biden (D-Israel) announced he would be nominating longtime Democratic foreign policy fixture Kurt Campbell to become deputy secretary of state, the number two position in the department. Restrainers might be tempted to breathe a sigh of relief...

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A Syria ‘No-fly Zone’ and Just War Theory

Now that the White House has come to the conclusion that Bashar al-Assad has indeed employed chemical weapons on a small scale against the Syrian opposition, the questions over what to do next have taken on ever greater urgency. Speaking to CNN recently, Sen. John...

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