Daniel Larison writes in The American Conservative that the confirmation of Mike Pompeo as the next Secretary of State should be rejected by the Senate. There are many reasons Pompeo should be disqualified from the post of America’s chief diplomat, but most critical is his desire to annul the nuclear deal hammered out with Iran. […]
Cato’s Justin Logan—Iran Nuclear Deal an Historic Achievement
Originally posted July 17, 2015. Justin Logan, director of foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, tells readers, as 30 nonproliferation experts attested to in a statement in April, “the agreement reduces the likelihood of destabilizing nuclear weapons competition in the Middle East, and strengthens global efforts to prevent proliferation, including the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.” …the […]
Iran’s Nuclear Bomb Prospects
Originally posted January 4, 2016. Americans are being misled on Iran’s prospects for developing a nuclear weapon. I recently asked Dr. Christopher Preble, the Cato Institute’s director for defense and foreign policy studies, for a New Year’s assessment of Iran’s nuclear capabilities. Chris advises Americans that: Based on the evidence that has been reported, Iran […]
Central Asia: Russia in Worse Shape than is America
The former head of the CIA’s bin Laden unit, Michael Scheuer, tells readers of his blog, non-intervention.com, that despite America’s reckless actions in the Middle East, which have bled the U.S. of men and treasure, Russia is in even worse shape. With the rise of ISIS cells in Northern Afghanistan, threatening Russia’s soft central-Asian underbelly, […]
FiveThirtyEight: I Guess This Makes Sense to Someone
Did Nate & Co. have any idea what was going on in the last presidential election? Am I the only one that doesn’t like the looks of this head scratcher? Maybe I’m missing something. But the financials? Is this a business? Read on. Benjamin Mullin reports on FiveThirtyEight’s move away from ESPN and to ABC […]
Lawn Signs Predicted Astounding Trump Presidential Victory
Originally posted November 9, 2016. Our summer-long, twenty-day lawn sign poll from our first day on the road caught the tone of American voters. (Read here, here, here, here and here). We polled from Camden, Maine, to Key West. We needed the six liberal New England states to gauge Clinton sentiment (totally lacking) and the whole run […]
Syria: Where is the Evidence?
Writing at The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan demands to know where the evidence is that strikes on Syria will force Russia, Syria, Iran and Hezbollah to yield to the demands of the United States? Pat notes the lack of explicit congressional authorization for any military activity against the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria. He […]
America Has No Interests at Stake in Syria
At The National Interest, Cato Institute senior fellow in defense and foreign policy studies, Ted Galen Carpenter, writes that America has no interests at stake in Syria that warrant risking a nuclear war with Russia. He is correct, and points to the inconclusive evidence of any chemical attack by the Assad regime as further reason for […]
Is There a Greater Threat to Liberty than Big Government?
Writing at The American Conservative, Bill Nitze (not a conservative), urges conservatives to join his battle against big tech companies, which he describes as “a greater threat to individual liberty and autonomy than the one posed by big government.” He writes: Editor’s Note: Bill Nitze, though a friend of TAC, is no conservative. Here, the […]
What Did America Gain from the Syria Strikes?
Daniel Larison, writing at The American Conservative says that the best outcome from this weekend’s missile strikes on the Syrian government could be that not enough damage was inflicted to prolong the civil war. The worst case scenario is that the U.S. ends up fighting a war against Syria’s patron states, Russia and Iran. Larison […]
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