Neither Freedom nor Safety
In their continuous efforts to create the impression that the government is doing something to keep Americans safe, politicians in Washington have misled and lied to the public. They have violated their oaths to uphold the Constitution. They have created a false sense...
The Good, Bad, and Uncertain About Recognizing ‘Palestine’
No matter what Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas does, his popularity is declining. In some ways, Abbas’ threshold for popularity was really never impressive to begin with, a trend that is unlikely to change in the near future. But now that a power...
Dozens Executed in Mosul; 331 Killed Across Iraq
Okinawans Want Their Land Back, Is That So Hard To Understand?
Living in a country where people learn world geography through frequently fought overseas wars, Americans are accustomed to reading about places where we’ve fought wars Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. But one formerly war-ravaged part of the...
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...
456 Reported Killed across Iraq as Coalition Partners Meet in Paris
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...
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...


