Quincy Rides Again
July 30, 2020 Opinion
The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft think tank launched last November. It has recently issued a roughly 15,000 word manifesto entitled “Ending America’s Misguided Policy of Middle East Dom…
Foreign Policy
How the Media Used the Bounty Scandal to Stop the ‘Threat’ of Peace in Afghanistan
July 5, 2020 Opinion
This is not a column defending Donald Trump. Across my career, I have said more positive words about the scolex family of intestinal tapeworms than I have said about Donald Trump. (Scolex have been sh…
Victoria Nuland Alert: The Foreign Interventionists Really Hate Russia
June 26, 2020 Opinion
It is difficult to find anything good to say about Donald Trump, but the reality is that he has not started any new wars, though he has come dangerously close in the cases of Venezuela and Iran and th…
America’s Supernational Sovereignty
June 18, 2020 Opinion
One of the most disturbing aspects of American foreign policy since 9/11 has been the assumption that decisions made by the United States are binding on the rest of the world, best exemplified by Pres…
US Foreign Policy Creates a Neverending Terrorist Cycle
March 27, 2020 Opinion
The US often decapitates terrorist leaders in a bid to deal terrorism a significant blow. However, groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS are becoming increasingly resilient, and quickly replace their fallen l…
Explaining Syria: It’s Everyone’s Fault Except the U.S. and Israel
February 21, 2020 Opinion
The first week in February was memorable for the failed impeachment of President Donald Trump, the “re-elect me” State of the Union address and the marketing of a new line of underwear by Kim Kardashi…
Pompeo’s Empty Boasting in Munich
February 19, 2020 Opinion
Mike Pompeo delivered another tone-deaf, arrogant speech in Munich this weekend in which he proclaimed that “the West is winning.” In the most hypocritical and absurd section of the speech, Pompeo rai…
Trump Policy Wangle in Munich: Human Beings Reduced to Smelly Sauce
February 18, 2020 Opinion
US officials at the Munich Security Conference are warning the Syria Civil War may soon flood Europe with refugees. The unnamed United States geopolitical geniuses must have meant to say “again,” but …