Taking the diplomatic road on Iraq and Syria would let Sanders get back to the business he started in 2002 — making space between himself and Hillary Clinton on the Middle East.
On foreign policy, the Vermont independent’s “political revolution” hasn’t done much to distinguish itself from Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.
City by city, state by state, the Middle East is being laid to waste — and then we’re bombing the rubble.
While ISIS makes war on the world’s vast majority of “moderate Muslims,” hardliners in the West pretend they don’t exist.
Future generations of Islamic extremists may surpass the Islamic State in brutality.
Trump’s signature slogan on how to deal with ISIS is delusional.
A region at war, a rash of terrorist attacks, and the worst refugee crisis since World War II: These are the legacies of America’s quarter-century-and-counting war in Iraq.
Thirty-six years into the U.S. base build-up in the Greater Middle East, military force has failed as a strategy for controlling the region, no less defeating terrorist organizations.
The administration needs to face its inability to achieve regime change in Syria and the destruction of the Islamic State.
The United States should rethink its ties to a country that engages in mass executions and disastrous military campaigns.