With terrorism, just like anything else, nature abhors a vacuum.
Islamic Extremism Is Nothing if Not Protean
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U.S. Support for the Saudi Regime is a Humanitarian Disaster
As millions in Yemen face severe hunger, the United States continues to provide the Saudi invasion with arms.
The Five Lamest Excuses for Hillary Clinton’s Vote to Invade Iraq
Clinton supporters want Democratic voters to forgive their candidate’s support for the most disastrous foreign policy decision in decades. They shouldn’t.
The U.S. Should Not Accompany Saudi Arabia Over the Cliff
The United States should rethink its ties to a country that engages in mass executions and disastrous military campaigns.
Here’s the Thing About Terrorism Obama Won’t Tell You
Our wildly inflated fear of terrorism is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Saudi Arabia Executed a Nonviolent Shiite Cleric. It’s Going to Cost Them Big.
By raising sectarian temperatures throughout the Middle East, the Saudis risk escalating the unaffordable proxy wars they’ve already bogged themselves down in.
So Why Did Turkey Shoot Down That Russian Plane?
Powerful forces are maneuvering to torpedo any Syrian peace process that could leave room for Bashar al-Assad.
Was Abbottabad the Result of U.S. Intelligence or Wasn’t It?
A New York Times account is sympathetic to Seymour Hersh’s revisionist history about the raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan that killed Osama bin Laden.
While Saudi Arabia Goes to War Abroad, It’s Simmering at Home
To hear Saudi leaders tell it, the kingdom is under constant threat from Iran. But graver threats of their own making lurk at home.
Al Qaeda Airs Sour Grapes About Islamic State
The good news is that al Qaeda is on the verge of collapse. The bad news is that it’s been superseded by the Islamic State.