In Foreign Policy, Charles Lister warns against a plan currently percolating in the Biden administration to withdraw U.S. forces from Syria. While the editors of these pages encourage pulling American forces out of more countries in the Middle East and elsewhere, doing so in the failed fashion Biden exhibited in Afghanistan would be an embarrassing […]
Is America Covering Up an Illegal Occupation?
In a recent email from the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, Executive Director, Daniel McAdams outlines recent violence on the Syrian/Jordanian border and the potential that America is illegally occupying a portion of Syria. He writes: Early Sunday morning, local time, a drone successfully struck a US military facility on the Iraq/Syria/Jordan border. […]
The Calm Before the Storm
From White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, writing for the November/December issue of Foreign Affairs: The passages below, according to the WSJ’s “Notable & Quotable,” were deleted from the online version, published this week: The president inherited a region that was highly pressurized. . . . U.S. troops were under regular attack in Iraq and Syria. . . . Such […]
Cato’s Chris Preble and Doug Bandow Clarify Syrian Withdrawal
What follows is an abridged version of the single best summation of America’s withdrawal from Syria you will read. It was written by Christopher Preble and Doug Bandow of the Cato Institute, and originally published in the National Interest. Young Research & Publishing has been a strong supporter of both Chris and Doug since 2010. They […]
President Donald Trump Got it Right on Syria
Of the President’s decision in Syria, Pat Buchanan writes at his blog (abridged): President Donald Trump could have been more deft and diplomatic in how he engineered that immediate pullout from northeastern Syria. Yet that withdrawal was as inevitable as were its consequences. A thousand U.S. troops and their Kurdish allies were not going to […]
Here’s Why Trump Should Ignore the Foreign Policy Establishment
Doug Bandow explains at The American Conservative why President Trump should ignore the “carping,” of the foreign policy establishment, and trust his instincts about getting America out of Syria. Bandow, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, suggests leaders “Consider Uncle Sam’s disastrous record in foreign civil wars.” That disastrous record should be enough evidence […]
Trump/ Pat Buchanan Have it Right on Syria
Pat Buchanan strikes hard at the neocon branch of the Republican Party in a recent piece published on LewRockwell.com. Pat hits out at critics of President Trump’s decision to pull back from Syria, namely Lindsey Graham, Liz Cheney, Marco Rubio, Nikki Haley, and Mitt Romney. Graham and Romney are old school neocons, while Cheney, Rubio, […]
VIDEO: Rand Paul slams GOP ‘war caucus’ criticizing Trump for Syria
America Can’t Fix the Middle East
Walter Russell Mead says the Middle East’s “economic and social conflicts,” destabilize the region. Despite America’s power, says Mead, the U.S. can’t resolve the region’s problems. He writes (abridged): Iraq isn’t the only country in the region that is trapped in a cycle of dysfunctional governance and blocked development. The forces that produced the Arab […]
Is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Still Alive?
Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi is the leader of Daesh, aka ISIS. He is a mysterious figure, having rarely been seen in public. Armies fighting in Syria have claimed his death a number of times, only to be proven wrong. I wrote of two of these rumor, once in 2014, and again in 2017. Now, new video […]
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