The Year of ‘We Told You So’
This is going to be the year of “we told you so.” It is the year in which all the disasters predicted by President Obama’s critics come true. It is the year in which the consequences of the president’s...
View ArticleWish-Fulfilling Prophecy
Democrats predicted that the war in Iraq was unwinnable, Harry Reid said it was already lost, and Senator Obama declared that President Bush’s “surge” wouldn’t work. And now here we are in 2014, and by...
View ArticleWhy Rand Paul Can’t Be President
Rand Paul is one of the most promising new Republican politicians, with impeccable small-government credentials, a fanatical grassroots following, and the charisma to appeal to mainstream voters and...
View ArticleThe Paradox of the Non-Interventionists
A rigorously non-interventionist foreign policy poses a basic paradox. The worse the rest of the world looks, the more the anti-interventionists can say there are no good options to choose from, and we...
View ArticlePlanning to Fail (Again) in Iraq
One of the consequences of Barack Obama’s presidency will be to discredit the foreign policy of the “humanitarians.” It won’t be because people think it’s bad to feel compassion for the suffering of...
View ArticleIraq Goes on the Obama Diet
President Obama has quite a knack for foreign policy: everything he touches seems to crumble. The administration’s policy in Iraq, for example, was to use the Kurds in northern Iraq to hold back the...
View ArticleGetting Serious About Syria
Has anyone thought about what we’re going to have to do about the Islamic State—I mean, really thought about it? It has become obvious that the group that calls itself ISIS or just the Islamic State is...
View ArticleThe Wish-Fulfilling Prophecy
Top Stories of the Year: #2 Some of us have been warning for years that President Obama is undermining all the pillars of US foreign policy, which would lead to disaster. This second biggest story of...
View ArticlePresident Trump Has a Clear Shot at Iran
Over the past week, a new wave of anti-regime protests has broken out in Iran, and it could not have happened at a more opportune time. Following the defeat of ISIS in Syria, this gives America the...
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