The American Conservative

Our political culture’s abject deference to presidential power on matters of war makes it easy for presidents to get away with these things.

Trump is a weak president, and escalation of ongoing wars is the path of least resistance in Washington, so that is what he has done.

Cotton has no problem with starting illegal wars.

The ideologues who wrecked Libya. Matt Purple considers the consequences of the …

It is hard to think of examples where the U.S. has not given allies and clients a free pass for their destabilizing behavior.

Frenetic meddling in the affairs of other nations hasn’t made and won’t make America any safer.

The Saudis and their allies think they have a green light from Washington to do as they like without any consequences.

The so-called “model” intervention made things worse precisely because it “succeeded” in toppling the regime.

Obama has probably done more to discredit “humanitarian” interventionism with his policies than any other recent president.

In the last twenty years, Clinton has never seen a military intervention that she thought was unnecessary or too risky.

There are other likely choices that would be a better fit with Clinton and would be even more likely to share her foreign policy priorities.

Trump missed his last major chance to make the election more competitive.

Trump mostly failed to use Clinton’s foreign policy record against her.

Almost everything in her foreign policy record says that this is how she will govern.

If we take the last resort standard seriously, it means that preventive war can never be an option because it is inherently too hasty and unjust. .

Kaine ought to be questioned about his early and eager backing for the Saudis’ unnecessary and ruinous war.

We shouldn’t forget how irresponsible and reckless Cameron’s foreign policy was.