Joe Biden and the grand battle of ideas
At his press conference in reaction to the fall of Kabul, Biden sounded Trumpian
American foreign policy
Wednesday
Tuesday
Saigon and Kabul: what would Nixon say?
Alas, here we are, doomed to history repeating because of Biden’s disregard of all of the lessons of the previous debacle
Monday
Joe Biden’s short walk in the Hindu Kush
To say that what just happened in Afghanistan caught the Biden administration by surprise would be the understatement of the year
Biden gave the right speech at the wrong time
Americans want to know how things went to so badly. Biden didn’t give them that
Biden embraces his inner realist
Rather than conveying weakness, Biden projected resolve
The American epoch of failure
A lost war does less damage to a country like the United States than a war that cannot be won
Sunday
Wrong then, wrong now — Joe Biden’s maddeningly inconsistent foreign policy
Joe Biden’s public pronouncements on Afghanistan neatly signal the folly of American leadership in the last two decades
Autopsy of a failed war
Our longest war ends in another abject failure
Thursday
Why progressives have no sense of proportion
Why does the Biden administration have harsher words for Ron DeSantis than for the Taliban?
Thursday
Will America rescue the mullahs?
The nuclear deal and the next Iranian uprising
Thursday
A DC evening with Svetlana Tikhanovskaya
The Belarusian opposition leader is Washington’s ‘It Girl’
Thursday
Glenn Greenwald: America First conservatives shouldn’t support unrest in Cuba
‘The US government, when it intervenes, brings instability, not stability’
Monday
We must help the Afghan interpreters
Our obligations in these cases are significant: a debt of honor and also a matter of national security
Thursday
What does Vladimir Putin have on Joe Biden?
Biden is refusing to act as Russian attacks become more ambitious and more aggressive
Tuesday
Can the US redeem itself in Afghanistan?
The US engaged in ‘nation-building’ for the wrong reasons — and has seen bad results
Sunday
We are all Donald Rumsfeld
The late defense secretary is a scapegoat for the Establishment
Is critical race theory in the US military ‘dangerous’?
GOP House Armed Services Committee members slam Defense Department priorities as China and Russia rise
Wednesday
Donald Rumsfeld succeeded at everything — so why did he fail in the end?
The former defense secretary died aged 88 on Thursday
Friday
Raisi’s election confirms the futility of returning to the Iran Deal
Iran’s president-elect is what Hannah Arendt would have called a schreibtischtäter, a ‘desk murderer’
Friday
America isn’t back. Global grandstanding is
Don’t expect any meaningful solutions to the world’s biggest problems
