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 […]
Welcome Back Michael Scheuer: Idlib, Syria is Not America’s Concern
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 […]
Time to Bring Troops Home from Syria
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 […]
U.S. Vital Interests Not Imperiled in Idlib, Syria
What vital interest is served by American military involvement in Idlib, Syria? As Pat Buchanan explains at The American Conservative, none. An intervention in Syria against the Russians would be a step backward for a president who won by running on a platform outlining less foreign intervention by American forces. Pat writes (abridged): Is President […]
After ISIS: The Middle East Truth Revealed
In The American Conservative, Geoffrey Aronson, chairman and co-founder of The Mortons Group, blasts the idea that Sykes-Picot, the post-World War I agreement that carved up the Middle East into nation-states, is dead. Many pushed that idea as truth during the rise of the cross-border ISIS insurgency, but in light of Bashar al-Assad’s victory, it would […]
And You Thought ISIS Was All Done
In what could be the start of a new phase of the war in Syria, ISIS militants have used suicide bombers to killed nearly 100 people and wound nearly 200 more in the city of Sweida. Haaretz writes: Islamic State militants killed scores of people in a series of attacks on government-held parts of southwestern Syria on Wednesday, […]
Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq: Withdraw Military and Terminate Economic Aid
The former head of the CIA’s bin Laden unit, Michael Scheuer, suggests that now, as the fighting in Syria winds down and a peace agreement in Afghanistan lies within sight, is a good time for America to pull back from the “interventionist political meddling, military invasions, and hectoring cultural incursions in the Islamic world.” He […]
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 […]
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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