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If refraining from imposing sanctions on an ally is now considered an example of harming the national interest, words really have no meaning.
Jul 26Comment 2Share
Sanctions relief benefits the people first and foremost because they are the ones that suffer most from the sanctions.
Jul 26Comment 1Share
Like everything else he does, this is just self-serving grandstanding that will do nothing but harm U.S. interests.
Jul 23Comment 4Share
Ross calls this “deterring” Iran, but what he is describing is enabling criminal aggression by one state against another.
Jul 23Comment 4Share
It is part of a chilling campaign to stifle free speech here in the U.S. and to delegitimize all protest of Israel’s illegal occupation.
Jul 22Comment 2Share
Making an explicit security commitment to Taiwan would not deter a Chinese attack. It would practically guarantee one.
Jul 22Comment 2Share
Three years of “maximum pressure” did not compel Iran to do what the U.S. wanted, so it is bizarre that the Biden administration thinks that tighter sa…
Jul 19Comment 7Share
As a general rule, the elder Bush kept his mouth shut.
Jul 16Comment 1Share
As long as the GOP remains in thrall to such fanaticism with respect to Iran, U.S. policy is bound to veer from limited engagement to relentless hostil…
Jul 16CommentShare
America has often been at its most dangerous and destructive when it has had supreme confidence in itself and its role in the world.
Jul 16Comment 4Share
Because the U.S. has almost no influence in Cuba by choice, there is very little that our government can do there now.
Jul 15Comment 3Share
There is no pretense here that the United States would be defending itself, so it would be out-and-out aggression against a small, neighboring country.
Jul 13Comment 3Share
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