Baghdad can’t fight off its more powerful neighbors. U.S. policy has created a dangerous power vacuum in the Middle East.
Fluffy talk about “burden sharing” and multilateralism won’t keep America secure.
America should stop talking about regime change. It only strengthens the mullahs.
America’s deteriorating relationship with Turkey is likely to get even worse.
China’s growing strength is making its neighbors nervous—and less fearful of a fully rearmed Japan.
American optimism is misplaced—China won’t help us deal with North Korea or stop Iran from going nuclear.
The Ahmed Chalabi fiasco is just the latest chapter in America’s long history of being duped by foreign political actors.
Nouri al-Maliki is exhibiting worrying authoritarian tendencies.
If Moscow wants good relations with Washington, it needs to stop meddling in Latin America.
Nation building is a failed policy. So why are we trying it in Afghanistan?