Tag: chris preble

VIDEO: War without Debate

E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy - October 14, 2014

From Cato Institute: Featuring Gene Healy, Vice President, Cato Institute; and Christopher Preble, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; moderated by...

The Most Dangerous World Ever?

The Editors - September 23, 2014

In February 2012 Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, declared, “I can’t impress upon you that in my...

What does Rand Paul Stand For?

Richard C. Young - September 22, 2014

In this incoherent feature in the WSJ, it’s not hard to come away with a fuzzy view of Senator Paul’s foreign policy position. This, of...

Keeping Our Troops in Iraq?

Richard C. Young - September 19, 2014

Neocon bastion and cheerleader John Bolton advises here: “Keeping our troops in Iraq three years ago was the better course, and it is even...

ISIS Common Sense

Richard C. Young - September 11, 2014

The Cato Institute's Chris Preble calls it right. Simply put, a full-scale ground war with U.S. troops doing most of the fighting isn't necessary. ISIS...

Sunnis/Shia: War and Bloodshed since the 7th Century

Richard C. Young - August 25, 2014

Today in Iraq and Syria the world is facing a centuries old battle of Muhammadism. Muhammadism is strictly a religious and not a nationalist...

Prudence and Restraint

Richard C. Young - August 22, 2014

In Reason, Cato Institute Senior Fellow Chris Preble takes proponents of intervention in Syria like Hillary Clinton to task. Clinton criticizes Obama's failure to intervene...

Democrats and Republicans: Foolish Interventionists

Richard C. Young - August 19, 2014

With Maliki out the door in Iraq, the Cato Institute’s Chris Preble concludes, “While President Obama’s approval rating goes down, including his handling of...