If you say it out loud, it seems too preposterous to be true. Four high-profile former government officials are getting paid by an Iranian dissident group that until 2012 was an officially designated terrorist organization to publicly oppose the Obama administration's...
US Exploits Humanitarian Suffering in Philippines to Win More Military Bases
Catherine Traywick at Foreign Policy explains how the U.S. government and the (U.S.-backed) Philippines government exploited the U.S. military's disaster response to the recent typhoon in order to justify more U.S. troops to be stationed at more U.S. bases in the...
SOTU Cory Remsburg Standing Ovation Embarrassing for Congress
How Popular Are Rand Paul’s Foreign Policy Views, Really?
Colin Dueck, writing in Foreign Affairs, argues that Rand Paul's foreign policy does not seem to be on the ascendency, as some have assessed. Not only does the GOP establishment oppose Paul's less interventionist take on national security policy, but even the...
Is Rand Paul-Style Foreign Policy Restraint on the Ascendency in the GOP?
Jacob Heilbrunn, editor of The National Interest, spoke with Chicago University professor and renowned international relations theorist John Mearsheimer about the apparent shifts in attitudes in both the country and in Washington on foreign policy issues: I would...
US Troops Do Not Fight ‘To Keep Us Free’
In last night's State of the Union speech, President Obama put the spotlight on one of his invited guests, Army Ranger Sgt. 1st Class Cory Remsburg, a severely wounded veteran who was nearly killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. Here's Reason's Nick Gillespie in...
We Can Stop Meddling in Egypt Now: It Doesn’t Concern Us
The Obama administration seems to have made a decision long ago on how to deal with Egypt's rocky, post-Mubarak transition; namely to keep it subtle and in the background. Washington intends to remain a player in Egypt's strategic position, but as far as the domestic...
Is a US-China War More Likely Than a US-Soviet War Was?
Despite my harsh criticisms of the Obama administration's policies towards the Asia-Pacific, I'm of the opinion that an actual shooting war between the U.S. and China is very unlikely for the foreseeable future. Like the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the Cold War,...
Defense Corporations Fib Job Loss Estimates to Avoid Budget Cuts
One of the hard truths about Washington is that Congress recklessly wastes billions of taxpayer dollars on weapons programs that the Pentagon says it doesn't want or need. Congress does this to avoid the slight uptick in unemployment in their districts that might...
No Tears for the Real Robert Gates
In the early 1970s, I was chief of the CIA’s Soviet Foreign Policy Branch in which Robert M. Gates worked as a young CIA analyst. While it may be true that I was too inexperienced at the time to handle all the management challenges of such a high-powered office, one...
