Yesterday, Iranian missiles struck near the huge U.S. consulate in northern Iraq. Iran claimed the attack was in retaliation for an Israeli strike that killed two members of its Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Syria last week. What is…
Chinese President Xi Jinping greatly impressed President Joe Biden in their two-hour telephone conversation this week. That’s not entirely a good thing. Biden, briefing reporters on the Wednesday call, said, “Last night, I was on the phone for two straight…
Blunders abound for the Biden administration’s Middle East policy. In a gratuitous windfall to Iran, the administration has announced it will stop funding Saudi involvement in the Yemeni Civil War and will remove the Houthis, Iran-backed proxies in Yemen, from…
Fourteen years ago today marks the low point of the Iraq War. Mounting U.S. casualties and raging sectarian violence in an undeclared civil war was the order of the day. That changed late in the afternoon when Sheik Sattar Bezia…
Seventy former national security officials who had served in past Republican administrations have written a letter and taken out a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal to declare that President Trump is “dangerously unfit” to serve a second term…
I know the mantra when my side’s candidate is down in the polls: The polls are fake. I don’t trust the polls. And look whom they mostly interviewed — the other guys. And when my guy is up: I like…
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Former Vice President Joe Biden never measures up to that standard. In 2014, Bob Gates, who served as President Obama’s first secretary of defense, said that Biden had been wrong on…
“Some members of Congress believe that the time has come to ratchet up sanctions on Iran. They argue that this is the most effective way to achieve the goal of getting Iran to give up its nuclear program. We in…
One of President Trump’s overlooked achievements is the unmasking of our false allies in Europe. The governing elite of Europe — the same people who lead the most powerful members of both the European Union and NATO — so intensely…
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