Jon Schwarz gives us a brief history of America's many betrayals of the Kurds since the end of World War I. In a recent article for The Intercept he describes at least eight separate times the U.S. government has used Kurdish fighters to its own advantage and then...
Foreign policy
Poll: Americans Are Always Wrong About the Most Important Things
The Hill: A large majority of voters — 84 percent — are concerned about the prospect of Iran obtaining nuclear weapons, according to a Hill-HarrisX poll released on Monday. That's more than those who expressed concern over other foreign policy issues, including North...
Trump Flip-Flops on Syria Withdrawal. Again.
President Trump is reversing his foreign policy decisions so quickly these days that it almost seems like he overturns himself before making the decision in the first place. Last week he was very clear that the US was pulling its troops out of Syria. “Bringing...
Donald Trump wants to Leave Syria but Bomb Yemen?
Trump has called for some US troops to withdraw from northeastern Syria. However this move has Democrats screaming about the local Kurds being abandoned who were our ally, that we were protecting. However they are criticizing him for the wrong reasons. The real...
Iran & Israel: A Love Story
Did you know Iran offered to help the United States defeat al-Qaeda? Israel and Iran both are isolated by the same Sunni Arab enemies. They both funded the same terrorist group Hamas. And they both rival for the attention of the United States. Iran and Israel are...
To End the Wars, Attack the Right From the Right
Sadly, the antiwar and anti-national security state inclinations of American liberals and progressives have weakened since the days of President George W. Bush. Partisan incentives during Barack Obama’s presidency combined with the FBI-CIA-Democratic Party-media plot...
Don’t Be Sorry, Jane Fonda
The American war on South East Asia, or more commonly known as the Vietnam War was at its bloody peak when Jane Fonda went to Hanoi. Millions had died, and the promise of victory was ever elusive for the US government. The support for the war inside the United States...
Should Americans Fight to Protect the Kurds in Syria?
The Washington foreign policy outrage mob was at it again, this time wringing their hands in angst after President Trump announced that he would begin drawing down the American military presence in northern Syria and then finally ordered a full withdrawal of around...
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