Daniel Larison at The American Conservative explains Mitt Romney’s consistently hawkish foreign policy stance. If Americans see a Mitt Romney reboot for a third presidential run, they shouldn’t expect a change in his foreign policy views. It is always a vain effort to try to figure out what Romney “really” believes on any subject, but […]
Obamacare Sends Mary Landrieu Packing
The American Conservative’s Rod Dreher explains that the Democrats knew that Landrieu’s goose was cooked. Democrats thus refused to shovel any cash, which could be better used in 2016, into this year’s sinking Landrieu reelection effort. The single cause for Landrieu’s embarrassing beating? The policies of Barack Obama. Obama has really put Democrats on the […]
Tom Cotton, End Negotiations with Iran
Tom Cotton, incoming Republican Senator from Arkansas, is calling for Congress to end negotiations with Iran. Noting this, Daniel Larison, in the American Conservative, writes that Paul Pillar (National Interest) has shown that the U.S. and its allies have gotten “by far the better side of the deal in the Joint Plan of Action.” As […]
Three Losers For America: Israel, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia
Originally posted October 15, 2014. Here American Conservative co-founding editor Scott McConnell lays bare the foreign policy truth that the political elite in Washington,to the detriment of all Americans,refuse to embrace. My post on Cato Institute’s Justin Logan follows an equally correct track. Voters have an opportunity this fall to arm themselves with the common […]
Two Losers for America
Wait till you read this essay! Who could vote for any political candidate who can be tied in, even remotely, with Sheldon Adelson or Haim Saban? Both are probably lovely gentlemen, but their foreign policy views make their influence a cancer for any political candidate. Scott McConnell, founding editor of The American Conservative, lays out […]
Leaders for Liberty: Sen. Rand Paul and Rep. Justin Amash
The American Conservative’s Daniel McCarthy explains how liberty-minded Republicans, exemplified by Rand Paul and Justin Amash, represent “a qualitative change in tone and policy emphasis for the GOP, particularly on national security and foreign policy.” McCarthy also explains that the public “has shown to have no appetite for the decades-long wars that Tom Cotton’s [Arkansas’s […]
Conquer and Occupy Mecca?
William Pfaff (a veteran observer) asks “is it fully appreciated in Washington that the ‘New Caliphate’ has every intention of taking over the existing role in Islamic society of Saudi Arabia? It wants to conquer and occupy Mecca. If it succeeds, the Saudis themselves will be submitted to the ferocious discipline the ISIS practices.” One […]
U.S.Repeating Past Mistakes
Here the American Conservative’s Daniel Larison explains America’s tendency to exaggerate foreign threats. Stephen Walt sees the U.S. repeating past mistakes in its war on ISIS. The first mistake he identifies is the tendency to exaggerate foreign threats: Why is threat inflation a problem? When we exaggerate dangers in order to sell a military [action], […]
Failed Weinberger/Powell Tests
Barack Obama needs to go to Congress and explain how his misguided foray into Syria meets the tests of the Weinberger/Powell Doctrine. Daniel Larison writes at The American Conservative here that America needs to end the latest unnecessary war. The Post points out the obvious that the war against ISIS isn’t “achieving its aims”: For now, the […]
Escalation in Syria Inevitable?
Daniel Larison at The American Conservative writes that the President may have trapped himself into inevitable escalation in the war in Syria. Vietnam comparisons are often perilous and potentially misleading, but the point the authors want to make shouldn’t be overlooked because of that. Presidents trap themselves into pursuing unwise escalation in foreign wars because […]
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