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 […]

It’s been easy to get caught up in the circus surrounding Brett Kavanaugh over the past several days, but I’d like to bring us back to the Only Foreign Policy Issue That Matters in the Near Term: Iran. With the administration having withdrawn from the JCPOA, the nuclear deal Obama signed with Iran, there was […]

I have been warning against Neocon John Bolton for years. He belongs nowhere near the White House. Below Cato’s Doug Bandow shares with readers the Boltonish snarl President Trump is getting himself into. He writes at The American Conservative (abridged): Candidate Donald Trump campaigned against Washington’s foolish Middle East wars. President Donald Trump is threatening […]

From his prime time perch on Fox News, Tucker Carlson tells viewers that a war on Iran would destroy Trump’s presidency. That is most likely correct. We hope that President Trump’s aggressive rhetoric toward Iran is part of his famous negotiating style, and that he doesn’t intend to take the United States into another unwinnable […]

Michael Scheuer, the former head of the CIA’s bin Laden unit, pinpoints precisely the problem of America’s deep involvement in world affairs. Aside from having no constitutional authority to spend American blood and treasure in foreign lands attempting to achieve goals benefitting other nations, there is simply a conflict of interest in anyone inhabiting both […]

Writing at The American Conservative, Daniel Larison calls President Donald Trump’s decision to leave the JCPOA (the Iran nuclear deal) an unforced error. He reports that the Administration’s antagonism toward Iran is heating up, and National Security Advisor John Bolton would prefer the “deranged totalitarian cult” Mujahideen-e Khalq run the country. Larison writes: Trump’s decision to […]

Chris Preble, vice president for defense and foreign-policy studies at the Cato Institute and a friend of mine, has written in The National Interest that there is reason to believe Iran had ceased its research on nuclear weapons years before the JCPOA because it was simply too much trouble. He writes (abridged): It was never obvious […]

Pat Buchanan writes that the foreign policy America Firsters voted for when they elected President Trump has been sidelined by the will of Bibi Netanyahu and John Bolton. The move has already led to increased violence in the Middle East and, Pat continues, America appears to be at the beginning of a new war. He […]