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by and | Dec 9, 2024

The long nightmare of the Assad family dictatorship has come to a sudden end. Hafez al-Assad seized power in Damascus…

by | Dec 9, 2024

I understand that Biden has about as much to do with directing U.S. foreign policy as Humpty Dumpty or the…

by | Dec 8, 2024

Reuters reports that Syrian Islamist rebels have captured Damascus and  overthrown the regime of Bashar al-Assad, ending at least for…

by | Dec 5, 2024

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) was created by Congress in 1983 to promote democracy and democratic institutions abroad. It…

by | Dec 2, 2024

“Man cannot control the current of events,” said Germany’s 19th-century Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, “he can only float with them and…

by | Dec 2, 2024

I read this morning that Joe Biden is fulfilling a “long-stated” promise to visit Africa, making the journey (finally) with…

by | Nov 29, 2024

James Burnham: An Intellectual Biography By David T. Byrne (Northern Illinois University Press, 256 pages, $33.95) “Only by renouncing all…

by and | Nov 25, 2024

President Trump rightly points out that America did not engage in new wars during his first term in office. The…

by | Nov 22, 2024

If there ever was a Biden Doctrine on foreign policy, the accompanying tagline would be “Don’t Win.” He has been…

by | Nov 21, 2024

George Washington Professor of International Affairs Robert Sutter writes in The Diplomat that the Biden administration has successfully checked China…

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