Joey, we hardly knew ye
A few words of advice for the departing commander in chief
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Here’s how Elise Stefanik can put Trump’s America First agenda to work at the UN
The screams you heard emanating from Turtle Bay earlier this week were foreign diplomats learning that President-elect Donald Trump would appoint Rep. Elise Stefanik to be his ambassador to the...
Op-eds
Qatar’s bait and switch game as mediator and host
Qatar is arguing that it won’t act as a mediator any longer, threatening the fate of the hostages because a deal would be harder without Doha in the middle.
Op-eds
Hamas Backer Qatar Joins U.S. Visa Waiver Program
The U.S. State Department and Department of Homeland Security admitted Qatar to the U.S. Visa Waiver Program on September 24, allowing the emirate’s 330,000 citizens to travel...
Flash Briefs
Israel sends beepers into the battle with Hezbollah
While Biden sounds another retreat
Op-eds
The Houthis have challenged the Rules-Based International System and must be defeated
In my first analysis and opinion piece on the so-called Axis of Resistance, I set the scene by describing Iran’s 45-year trajectory from the Khomeini revolution to its current challenge to...
Op-eds
Afghanistan and Gaza: Tragedy and farce
You wonder why a Hamas rapist who gets what he deserves is reinvented as an innocent civilian murdered as part of a “genocide,” while Afghan women are transformed into chattels and slaves, and the world remains silent.
Op-eds
After 9/11, We Went to War Against the Terrorists. The Terrorists Won.
We retreated. They survived. And we’re deluding ourselves otherwise.
Op-eds
Twenty-three years into the long war
The threat matrix keeps expanding
Op-eds
Don’t over-concentrate US forces in the Middle East
US military bases in the Persian Gulf confront two problems. The first is the growing missile and drone capabilities of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The other is that some Arab partners restrict the Pentagon’s...
Op-eds
McMaster and commander
Thirteen months as President Trump’s national security advisor
Op-eds
Responding forcefully to the Axis of Resistance
Iran has defined itself in opposition to Israel, the United States, and the wider West since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Over the course of half a century of complex regional and global events, the clerical...
Op-eds
When did the US lose Afghanistan?
August 15, 2021, was the day Afghanistan fell to the Taliban, and the US lost the war. Or was it? After following the war for over two decades, it’s become clear that Afghanistan wasn’t lost in...
Op-eds
America’s ‘self-defeat’ in Afghanistan
Three years after the U.S. withdrawal, lessons should have been learned
Op-eds
How Qatar buys powerful friends in Washington
The case of Bob Menendez and others like him
Op-eds
The Islamic Republic prepares to avenge Ismail Haniyeh
“Bloodlust” is a term cascading across the Iranian media space this week: “Bloodlust is commanded,” declared Jam-e Jam newspaper, connected to Iran’s state-sanctioned...
Op-eds
Trump’s foreign-policy platform reflects his first-term achievements
President Biden’s foreign-policy failures have set the world on fire — and the conflagration is now the backdrop as Republicans present their very different vision. Biden has invited multiple...
Op-eds
The “bonds are close” as the Pakistani Taliban benefits from its Afghan safe haven
The Afghan Taliban and the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan maintain a “close” relationship, the United Nations Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team reported. The Movement of the Taliban...
Op-eds
Al Qaeda expands its network of training camps in Afghanistan
Al Qaeda is operating training camps in the Afghan provinces of Kandahar and Takhar, the United Nations Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team reported. These facilities are in addition to those...
Op-eds
David Petraeus Is Wrong: Counterinsurgency Won’t Work in Gaza
When you only have a hammer. . .