David C. Hendrickson, a professor of political science at Colorado College and the author of Republic in Peril: American Empire and the Liberal Tradition, explain in The American Conservative that it will be difficult for President Trump to fulfill his promise to leave Syria while maintaining pressure on the Iranian regime. He writes (abridged): Lost in […]

Gareth Porter explains at The American Conservative, how President Trump has “offered the country a new course, one that does not involve a permanent war state.” Trump has blown up the the “transparent schemes” of the military industrial complex, which has been fighting tooth and nail to keep American forces in Syria. This is the […]

On the night of Christmas 2018, President Trump and first lady Melania secretly left Washington to visit U.S. troops in Iraq. Surprise visits have been a hallmark of the holiday season since President George W. Bush surprised troops in Iraq during Thanksgiving 2003. In his column, James Freeman (WSJ) reports that White House pool reporter […]

In The American Spectator, Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi a Jihad-Intel Research Fellow at the Middle East Forum, explains how President Trump’s announcement of rapid withdrawal from Syria is in accordance with his consistent messaging on the issue, and that those who wanted to “stay indefinitely,” in the country failed to offer a compromise that could work. He writes (abridged): […]

In what appears to be a major surprise to politicians across the world, in Syria, President Donald Trump is doing what he promised he would. Pat Buchanan explains that any others reasons for American forces in Syria, such as blocking Iranian weapons transports to Hezbollah for the Israelis, were not what the President was focused. […]

Matt Purple, managing editor of The American Conservative explains how Donald Trump, by exiting the Syrian conflict has avoided further involving America in a Muslim sectarian civil war, and also left the cleanup of Syria to Russia, a country with an economy the size of Italy’s. He writes: Washington melts down over Trump’s Syria withdrawal. Their obsession […]

“We can’t repair Syria—and it’s not our job to do it.” That’s what a senior officer told Mark Perry, a contributing editor at The American Conservative. That’s a perfect assessment of America’s position in Syria today. Trump’s decision to leave Syria behind is absolutely rational. The benefits will accrue almost immediately, with America’s Air Force and other […]

Earlier this week I wrote that it was time to bring troops home from Syria, and that Idlib, Syria is not America’s concern. As if in response, Russia and Turkey have signed their own deal on the fate of Idlib. Without excessive American intervention, the situation is sorting itself out. The deal should prevent Syria […]

After having his blog shut down by the GoDaddy.com thought police, the former head of the CIA’s bin Laden unit, Michael Scheuer is back with www.non-intervention2.com. On his new site, Scheuer takes aim squarely at one of his favorite targets, the warmongers in Washington D.C., personified in the late John McCain. Scheuer rightly states that […]

ISIS has been functionally defeated in Syria. When President Trump was running for office, his platform was mostly non-interventionist, but he did make an exception for destroying and defeating ISIS in Syria. That has been accomplished. Doug Bandow, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute,  explains in The American Conservative that any attempt by the United […]