The Nuclear Deal and ‘Credibility’
The nuclear deal has been delivering excellent results, but Iran hawks have never cared about that.
The nuclear deal has been delivering excellent results, but Iran hawks have never cared about that.
S.J.Res. 54 challenges decades of Congressional acquiescence to illegal presidential warmaking.
As the latest in a string of outrages and crimes, the murder of Khashoggi should force a serious reassessment of the current relationship that the U.S. has with Riyadh.
Secretary Pompeo is flouting the law and lying to the public and Congress about Yemen and Saudi Arabia.
Pompeo’s decision to flout the law and lie to Congress will just make opposition to future arms sales that much more intense.
The interventionists like Kagan that celebrate the “world order” most enthusiastically have made a habit of undermining and violating it more than most, and the “retreat” that they keep warning us about never seems to happen.
Thanks to Trump’s unpreparedness and bungling, he may very well succeed.
“Rewriting” the requirements of an agreement made in good faith is a dishonest and treacherous way to deal with other governments.
The bottom line is that Pompeo is not qualified to be Secretary of State.
The WSJ editorial never once mentions that Yemen suffers from the world’s worst humanitarian crisis in large part because of the Saudi-led war and blockade.
Coverage of the war on Yemen is rare enough that it magnifies the importance of mistakes and omissions in the few articles that do reach Western audiences.
When media coverage obscures or ignores the real causes of the crisis and portrays the people responsible for starving Yemen as well-meaning humanitarians, it helps the propaganda efforts of some of the world’s worst governments.
Our government is risking harm to our relations with allies by lying about the nuclear deal.
Encouraging an attempted coup in North Korea could backfire spectacularly.
Reneging on the deal in this way would tell the world that the U.S. can’t be trusted to honor its commitments.
Threatening North Korea with regime change would confirm the regime’s leadership in its conviction that it needs its nuclear weapons and missile programs.
MBS’ short, lousy foreign policy record tells us we should expect more bad judgment and reckless behavior from the Saudis