Rex Tillerson Babbles in Beirut While Middle East War Looms
Sec. of State Rex Tillerson visited Lebanon last Thursday, and let’s just say it wasn’t exactly a shining moment for U.S. diplomacy. Tillerson was made to sit...
Equity
Lebanon Is Another Name for Hezbollah
During his joint press conference with Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Tuesday,...
Op-eds
Distinction between Hezbollah and the “Lebanese State” now Meaningless
At the conclusion of President Trump’s recent visit to Saudi Arabia, the U.S. and the Saudis issued a...
Policy Briefs
The sorrow and the pity in Syria
Over the last five years, Syria has been descending into a hell on Earth. Over the last four months, the lowest depths of the...
Op-eds
Obama’s Syria Policy Striptease
America’s settled policy of standing by while half a million Syrians have been killed, millions have become refugees, and large swaths of their country have been re...
Op-eds
Team Obama’s appalling smugness on Syrian refugees
State Department spokesman John Kirby sang the praises of President Obama’s Syria policy on Monday. And boy, was he tone deaf. Kirby tweeted out proudly: “Today we reached [O...
Op-eds
Saudi Arabia Strikes Back
For those concerned about the fallout from President Barack Obama and his administration’s nuclear deal with Iran — the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Actio...
Op-eds
Syria just got worse than the ‘worst-case scenario’
While the Republican National Convention was dominating headlines, the Obama administration’s management of the Syria crisis went from bad to worse. Secretary of State John Kerry l...
Op-eds
Hezbollah’s Growing Threat Against U.S. National Security Interests in the Middle East
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Congressional Testimonies
America Makes a U-Turn in the Middle East
The administration of President Barack Obama seldom missed an opportunity to insist that the alternative to the Iran nuclear deal was a war with Iran, a prospect that has...