Among the casualties of US wars in the Middle East: Christianity
Wars waged by ostentatiously Christian leaders in Washington have done enormous harm to their co-religionists half a world away.
We’ve turned our attention to Latin America again. That’s bad for Latin America.
The US wars in the Middle East distracted us, for a time, from a destructive meddling closer to home.
Trump’s real impeachable offense
Can Trump be deposed for being a bad president? Certainly not. Were his dealings with Ukraine so egregious as to justify his removal from office? Maybe. Should he be impeached? Yes — but not for any of the reasons his enemies cite.
Our misunderstanding of the hostage crisis still poisons US-Iran relations
A FEW WEEKS AGO, as I was giving a speech urging better relations between the United States and Iran, a man on the edge of the crowd began shouting in protest. Slowly I was able to make out his words. He was chanting a single phrase: “Hostage crisis! Hostage crisis! Hostage crisis!”
Condemning Trump on Syria? It’s “buffet outrage”
Several years ago, the United States hired Kurdish fighters to be our mercenaries in Syria. This month we decided we don’t need them anymore, and abandoned them to their fate. Turkey, which considers Kurdish militancy a mortal threat, quickly began bombing them. This set off a veritable orgy of indignation in Washington. It is a classic […]
