At The American Conservative, Cato Institute senior fellow Doug Bandow explains that unless President Trump changes his tactics with Iran, the Middle East is set to become a much more dangerous place. He writes (abridged): President Donald Trump says he wishes Iran would call him. All he wants, he insists, is “a deal, a fair […]

Pat Buchanan lays out an interesting theory today on Iran, the Never Trump movement, and the President at The American Conservative. Buchanan suggests that Never Trumpers want to start a war with Iran because they know it will finally bring an end to his presidency. With Americans so fatigued after nearly two decades of Middle […]

Jim Antle, editor of The American Conservative, explains that if President Trump doesn’t rein in John Bolton, his current National Security Advisor, the president’s legacy could be much tarnished. Bolton and other neocons who have somehow made their way into Trump’s administration are charting a foreign policy course that is far removed from the “America […]

The Wall Street Journal’s Summer Said, along with Nancy A. Youssef and Benoit Faucon, report that an official from the United States has said that an initial assessment points to Iran as the culprit in the recent sabotage attacks on vessels in the Persian Gulf. They write: An initial U.S. assessment indicated Iran likely was […]

At The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan lays out the sad state of affairs for Americans in Iraq today, and wonders why, after such a failed outcome there, there are officials in the Trump administration so willing to pursue the same regime change strategy in Iran. He writes (abridged): In 2003, George W. Bush took us […]

The Saudis have claimed two tankers in the Persian Gulf were hit by sabotage. AFP reports: Saudi Arabia said Monday two of its oil tankers were damaged in “sabotage attacks” in the Gulf as tensions soared in a region already shaken by a standoff between the United States and Iran. It came as US Secretary […]

On his blog, Pat Buchanan warns that if President Trump allows the so-called ‘B-Team,’ led by National Security Advisor John Bolton, to lure him into a war with Iran, it will be his presidency that will suffer. Buchanan writes (abridged): In late April, in an interview with Fox News, Iran’s foreign minister identified those he […]

By ending waivers granted to China, India, Turkey, Japan, and South Korea on buying sanctioned Iranian oil, President Trump has put those countries in a position in which they must choose between their own economic stability, and U.S. foreign policy goals. In addition to this risky move, Iran has vowed retaliation, which could include an […]

At The American Conservative Pat Buchanan highlights President Trump’s repeated calls to “stop the endless wars,” even as recently as Sunday. That’s the sentiment that hard working Americans looking for an “America First” foreign policy voted for in 2016, but since then President Trump has surrounded himself with advisers who would rather embroil America further […]