The Trump presidency has been a wreck. An unqualified, unprepared narcissist with a nanosecond attention span and compulsion to tweet, while holding a multitude of ill-considered opinions, became the world’s most powerful and important person. It sounded like the...
A Typical Democratic Official on the Pentagon and War
Jeh Johnson, formerly homeland security secretary under President Obama, showed how a typical Democratic official approaches the Pentagon and war as he spoke on ABC’s This Week on Sunday (11/15). For Johnson, the Pentagon “is typically an island of stability” in the...
Iraq Daily Roundup: Three Killed in Attacks
Max Boot’s Revenge: Biden’s ‘A-Team’ in Their Own Words
Beware savvy, sophisticate liberals bearing gifts of evasive and ethically empty prose. Having, for my sins, spent a few weeks reading just about everything on offer from what unrepentant neocon zealot – and born-again Washington Post columnist – Max Boot dubbed Joe...
Beijing Sends Biden a Warning
Because of Donald Trump, Vice President Joe Biden thundered during the campaign, the U.S. "is more isolated in the world than we've ever been ... America First has made America alone." Biden promised to repair relations with America's allies. And he appears...
Iraq Daily Roundup: Ten Killed in Attacks; 21 Convicts Hanged
Get Out of Afghanistan Now
Washington’s bipartisan War Party, encompassing most Democratic and Republican foreign policy analysts, is horrified by President Donald Trump’s decision to appoint loyalists to the Department of Defense. No one seriously expects him to launch a coup attempt. Rather,...
Iraq Daily Roundup: Eight Killed in Various Attacks
What Is John Brennan So Worried About?
Former CIA Director John Brennan is apparently so worried that Donald Trump might release certain classified intelligence that he suggested this week that Vice President Mike Pence and the cabinet remove Trump via the 25th amendment. Brennan appeared this week on both...
‘Playing for Time’: The Non-strategy of Mahmoud Abbas
"If we are going to live another four years with President Trump, God help us, God help you and God help the whole world." These were the words of Palestinian Authority Prime Minister, Mohammed Shtayyeh, during a virtual meeting with European legislators on...


