The fall of the Assad regime in Syria is a fatal blow to Iran’s position in the Middle East and could disrupt Russia’s power projection in the Mediterranean and Africa. But the extent to which this rolls back the Moscow–Tehran…
The unetaneh tokef prayer on Rosh Hashanah mentions the unpredictable inevitable human condition, as the book of life is opened, to be filled in over the coming days with the judgment of who will come to his timely end, and…
Cruel season, weather wise, and as sometimes happens, we are tempted to consider our comparative luck in relation to other countries. While surely American concerns should focus first on what we can and must do at home in response to…
Paris, Paris-Abidjan, Abidjan, you fly over, I write to Wlady, you end up in a different world and yet one that is so close. I am with Captain Kirk without his altitude — I hope to experience it some day…
Now that we have established that even ex-presidents can be tried in the Senate, the time may be right for a fresh look at ex-President Barack Obama’s presidential crimes and misdemeanors. To get the tumbrils rolling, let me suggest the…
Due to the irrational impulses Donald Trump brought out in his opponents, a sensible, moderate, pragmatic record in foreign policy is in danger of being jettisoned simply because he initiated it. Yet the consequences of such knee-jerk rejection will be…
President Trump’s call with French president Emmanuel Macron on Monday has focused his attention on de-escalating the dispute between France and Turkey in Libya. Tensions between the two countries have simmered since a June 10 incident in the Mediterranean. French…
On June 20, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a supporter of Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA), drew a line in the sand and threatened Egyptian military intervention if forces of the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA)…
The Sudanese uniforms must have noticed when Algeria’s army boss, Gen. Ahmed Gaid Salah, pushed his president out the door, politely as these things go, a couple weeks ago, because they lost little time fomenting the same fate for their…
