When the Cat’s Away: China Brokers Deal Between Iran and Saudi Arabia
The China-brokered deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia has shuffled the deck in the Middle East, cutting the US out of the pot.
Tagged: Foreign Policy
Reluctance as Policy
The Biden administration has a fatally flawed understanding of our position vis a vis our geopolitical adversaries; their consequent reluctance to capitalize on weakness betrays American interests.
Between Nagorno-Karabakh and a Hard Place
Greece’s choices are either play ball with EU, face dealing with an increasingly aggressive Turkey on their own, or worse yet rely on the Russians.
What is Democracy’s Selling Proposition with Respect to China?
There is no moral equivalency between the United States government and China’s government. But how do we package those differences in a convincing manner?
On Libertarianism & China: Two Perspectives
Is there a libertarian case for hawkishness against China?
The Inexplicable Origins of World War III
Fears about World War III, when they are not jokes, mostly revolve around an outdated view of how wars begin in the modern world.
Soleimani: Cooler Heads, Measured Takes, and Abject Panic
Because nothing is ever black and white, I’ve learned not to take cues from the hyperbolic.
Nikki Haley Resigns as UN Ambassador
Nikki Haley, the United State’s Ambassador to the United Nations, has resigned. In accepting her resignation President Trump says Amb. Haley will leave her position at the end of the year.
Niccoló and the Bully
As I watch the Trump Administration deteriorate into the political equivalent of the Fyre Festival, my thoughts naturally turn to Machiavelli.
Trump Channels Jackson, Gets Tepid Applause From Nixonians. Sad!
Burt Likko reacts to Donald Trump’s foreign policy speech, 140 characters at a time.
The Presidential Power of Printing Passports
When a Supreme Court Justice calls an entire city a “delicate subject,” there’s pretty much only one city he could be talking about. Burt Likko breaks down today’s division-of-powers decision.
Syria Musings Pt. 2.5 — The Arab League Reacts
A short Labor Day weekend musing. The Arab League has now moved toward asking for a UNSC backed intervention in Syria. The announcement is sufficiently vaguely worded that it’s not likely to actually amount to...
Beating the Drums for Intervention with Syria
Everyone wants to offer the President advice on what the U.S. should do about Syria, but no one has any clue how their plans would work or why.
Waiting for Halabja
~by Creon Critic What exactly is the delay in formulating a comprehensive strategy to transition the Assad regime out of power in Syria? However reluctant President Obama is to get further involved in another...
The Obama Doctrine Reborn
No Driving Blind today. Instead, everyone should take some time to read and consider the President’s speech on foreign policy from earlier. Full remarks below,
Conflicting Accounts of Obama’s Foreign Policy Achievements
Andrew Sullivan wants Obamaites to more aggressively tout the President’s foreign policy achievements: “I think the Obamaites need to be more aggressive in foreign policy arguments. Obama ended one war in Iraq, dispatched Osama bin Laden...
The World American Dysfunction Made
Military policy is one of those subjects that requires certain bona fides to discuss them with any level of sophistication. It crosses history, sociology, military history and strategy, each of which is a serious...
Something’s Rotten in the State of Our Union
Many have debated the President’s remarks from last Tuesday night’s State of the Union speech. E.D. Kain thought it was very successful, providing the American audience with a “rousing speech about the American dream,...
America, Forever At War
~by Elias Isquith James Joyner’s got a piece up at The Atlantic called “How Perpetual War Became U.S. Ideology” — and it’s a total disaster. From start-to-finish, the article is ill-conceived and under-thought and it...
Toward a norm of humanitarian intervention
by Creon Critic Several senior diplomats warn of genocide and, at minimum, crimes against humanity. Their concerns are corroborated by defecting military personnel, pilots and naval officers, who tell of orders to target civilians....
