Getting involved in Syria is a bad idea. But if you want to read the best case for war, check out Michael Weiss’s long argument in Foreign Affairs today, and especially the part about rebel fighters in the south: Little covered…
Well, not war—Congress doesn’t actually declare those anymore—but a set of limited missile hits against Syrian weapon sites: The United States could hit Syria with three days of missile strikes, perhaps beginning Thursday, in an attack meant more to send…
John Reed at Foreign Policy raises a pertinent question: Could a U.S. attack on Bashar al-Assad’s chemical weapon sites inadvertently release deadly chemicals? There’s also the issue of civilian harm. Some worry that hitting chemical weapons depots or factories may hurt or kill large…
Miley Cyrus’s performance at last night’s VMAs, which I think was intended to be cutting-edge but came off more like a risible burlesque, is all anyone is talking about on the Internet today. The commissars of culture, always on the…
John Kerry is once again muttering darkly about Bashar al-Assad’s latest alleged use of chemical weapons against his own people. Judging by the foreign policy commentary of the past several days, America has the following options with regards to the…
Governor Chris Christie has experience with a lot of things, but foreign policy isn’t one of them. So two years ago, when he was mulling over a presidential run, he was invited to meet Nixon’s former national security wizard Henry…
The Spectator has always offered a big tent under which a variety of views have flourished. Our new department, TEN PACES, aims to further the debate by asking a divisive question of two conservatives with opposing views. First up, the record and…
As long as everyone is irresponsibly speculating about 2016 (us included), let’s not forget one of the GOP’s most durable and successful national figures: Governor Scott Walker. Here’s Politico: But Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s game plan for the next three…
To call the New York mayoral election a circus is to insult any number of fine, well-credentialed clowns, ringleaders, human cannonballs, and zoo animals. Most of the media’s attention has been sucked up by Anthony Weiner’s latest sexscapades. But other…
Over the weekend, Time reporter Michael Grunwald tweeted: “I can’t wait to write a defense of the drone strike that takes out Julian Assange.” The tweet rightly garnered enormous blowback, including from those like me who are otherwise critical of Assange and Wikileaks….