Here we go again. We have seen this movie before. Before it was 9/11, weapons of mass destruction, and Iraq Now it is 10/7, a nuclear program, and Iran. In 2001 and 2003, we had a weak minded and ill informed President, George W. Bush, manipulated by false intelligence narratives and eager nation building on … Read more
Today (April 14, 2021,) President Joe Biden, the fourth American Chief Executive presiding over Military Involvement in Afghanistan, announced that he would not pass on that responsibility to a fifth American leader and said he would start the withdrawal of the remaining United States troops from that nation on May 1, 2021. The President cited … Read more
Tess Bridgeman is Senior Editor at Just Security blog, with a lengthy resumé in national security. Ms. Bridgeman breaks down the Trump administration’s recent escalation of hostilities with Iran which puts the U.S. on a war footing with Iran. The Soleimani Strike and War Powers: With the targeted killing [i.e., assassination] of Iranian Maj. Gen. … Read more
No one will ever trust working with America again. This will have long-term negative consequences for our alliances and coalition building in the future. This is a dark day for America. The Turkish invasion of northern Syria to massacre our U.S.Kurdish allies, who successfully defeated the ISIS Caliphate and who are holding thousands of ISIS … Read more
Last week Sen. “Tehran Tom” Cotton (R-AR), who along with 46 of his Republican Senate colleagues back in 2015 violated the Logan Act when they penned a letter to Iran’s leaders trying to scuttle the P5+1 Iran Nuclear Dear Deal, predicted in a recent PBS interview that the US would easily win a war against Iran in … Read more