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Is Humanitarian Aid Strengthening ISIS?
Recent reports on U.S. efforts to confront the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq revealed something disturbing. As U.S. forces launch attacks against ISIS, a vast array of U.S. and other western aid has...
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Grave threats over there President’s words will save us He says, bombs away! *** Copies of Kuran Body parts of boys and girls Blood of one and all *** Do unto others . . . But this is a special case...
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What Makes a Miserable Country?
Venezuela is the world’s most miserable country, according to a team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University who have calculated a World Misery Index. “Misery” is measured as the sum of a country’s...
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Military Aid—”If We Don’t Do It, Someone Else Will”
“If we don’t do it, someone else will.” If I had a nickel for every time someone said this to me in regard to U.S. foreign policy, I’d have enough to pay off the rest of my student loans and put any...
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DOD vs. CIA: Syria Edition
File this under the category of “I told you so.” In 2014, I wrote a piece on the idea of arming “moderate” Syrian rebels. The threat posed by the Islamic State, known also as ISIL or Deash, led many in...
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Putin’s World and Syria’s Nightmare
Vladimir Putin’s intervention in the U.S. election is and will continue to be a matter of controversy because we don’t know all the facts and therefore the full extent of what his government did (nor...
View ArticleErdoğan’s Mistake Is Worse Than a Crime
The famous quote mistakenly attributed to French Diplomat Talleyrand—“It is worse than a crime, it’s a mistake”—fits Turkish dictator Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s attack on the Kurds in northeastern Syria...
View ArticleLukashenko’s Safe Bet
Using human missiles, i.e. migrants, against another state for political reasons is one of the oldest tricks in the diplomatic playbook. Turkey’s Erdogan used it quite successfully since the Syrian...
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