A plan for de-escalation that secures the administration’s early wins is in the best interest of all parties—including the saner elements in Iran.
Tag: Syria
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How Turkey Will Use the War With Iran for Its Own Ends
Erdoğan has exploited chaos in the Middle East to increase Turkey’s geopolitical power. He hopes to step in to fill the power vacuum after the U.S. war with Iran.
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Trump’s Foreign Policy Is a Return to Hobbesian Reality
In the affairs of nations, the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.
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The Disappearing Middle Eastern Christians
Christians of different traditions and in different lands need to hang together, or else they will most assuredly hang separately.
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Farewell to Not-So-Merry Old England
Britain has lost its culture, its high quality of life, and its sanity. The UK has become just another backward socialist state.
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How Nations Die
England's invaders face less resistance than ever as they settle among an unarmed public led by self-hating flaccid clerks. This is how it ends.
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2024: A Chaotic Year in Review
A noteworthy year full of developments in world affairs leaves us wary of the evil they reveal, and hopeful that this evil will never triumph.
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Neocon Artistry and Its Discontents
The Neocons, with the political left, now comprise a uniparty elite that confuses the interests of the state with the interests of the American people.
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From the Devil to the Deep Blue Sea
Has Uncle Sam indeed signed a Faustian bargain with the Israelis? If so, who is Mephistopheles in the tale?
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Hezbollah Degraded
Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to switch the focus from Gaza in the south to Hezbollah in the north was an operational success of the highest order and a political masterpiece.
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Iran vs. Israel: De-Escalation Likely, for Now
In the fullness of time Israel will probably retaliate in some limited form, but under American pressure it will calibrate its response so that it does not prompt an uncontrollable spiral of escalation.
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Syria: A Merciful Regime-Change Failure
The failure of the American-instigated jihadist rebellion in Syria is a good thing. America’s involvement in a faraway land, where no vital U.S. interest exists, was and is an inherently bad idea.