At least 125 people were killed across Iraq. A suicide bomber struck near a base that is home to U.S. personnel.
read moreDeadlock: North Korea’s Nuclear Test and US Policy
North Korea continues to rattle the cages of both friend and foe. Despite near-universal condemnation of its fourth nuclear test and a deplorable human rights record, Kim Jong-un defiantly disregards the major powers and the United Nations. And now, adding insult to...
Optimism of the Will
So now we have another anti-Semite. Mazal Tov ("good luck") as we say in Hebrew. His name is Ban Ki-moon, and he is the Secretary General of the UN. In practice, the highest international official, a kind of World Prime Minister. He has dared to criticize...
Obama Readies To Fight in Libya, Again
Nearly five years after the U.S., Britain and France launched a bombing campaign against the Libyan government to bring about regime change, these same countries are contemplating a resumption of the war they thought was won when rebel forces they supported...
Civilian Casualties in Turkish Airstrikes as 174 Are Killed Across Iraq
Let’s Talk About Bernie Sanders and the Middle East
Foreign policy has taken a backseat to domestic issues in the Democratic primary thus far. There are two explanations for this. One is that the Democratic base simply doesn’t see foreign policy – apart from “terrorism,” which at least has a foreign...
The Logic of Hunger Striking Palestinians: When Starvation Is a Weapon
By Friday, January 29, Palestinian journalist Mohammed al-Qeq had spent 66-days on hunger strike in Israeli jails. Just before he fell into his third coma, a day earlier, he sent a public message through his lawyers, the gist of which was: freedom or death. Al-Qeq is...
Rand Paul in Retrospect
We are being treated to many – all too many – prognoses of Rand Paul’s presidential campaign and its untimely demise: Bonnie Kristian over at Rare.us blames the rise of ISIS, the latest foreign bogeyman to scare our laptop bombardiers into hiding under their beds:...
String of Blasts Hits Baghdad; 283 Killed in Iraq
At least 283 people were killed across Iraq in the latest violence. Several bombs were detonated in Baghdad.
read moreAmerica’s Myth of a Peaceful Nation
"We are a peaceful nation," claimed Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson in an interview with Katie Couric late last year. Carson voiced a view that is held by many in our society. Like most people around the world, we naturally like to think of...
