Boston Globe: ‘Compassion does not necessitate intervention’
Violent upheaval is now afflicting countries in almost every part of the world. Americans are eager to do whatever we can to help calm these crises. After a century of global power, this impulse is embedded in our national psyche. Americans are instinctively compassionate. We hate the thought that people are suffering anywhere. Our leaders […]
Boston Globe: ‘US a full partner in Ukraine debacle’
FROM THE moment the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the United States has relentlessly pursued a strategy of encircling Russia, just as it has with other perceived enemies like China and Iran. It has brought 12 countries in central Europe, all of them formerly allied with Moscow, into the NATO alliance. US military power is […]
