It’s Our Party

Posted by on Apr 17, 2014 in Articles, Featured, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments I just heard the news: the United States has changed its mind about Jens Stoltenberg, the new head of NATO. The U.S. Congress has passed a resolution blocking his appointment. Apparently, during his youth, Stoltenberg threw stones at the U.S. embassy in Oslo. As such, he constitutes a threat to American national security, and Congress is rightly taking a stand. Oh, I’m sorry, I must have...
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NATO on Viagra

Posted by on Apr 11, 2014 in Articles, Featured, Russia and Eastern Europe, Security, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments The North Atlantic Treaty Organization just hit 65. That’s retirement age, especially for an alliance structure that was born, grew up, and prospered during a bygone era. The war in Afghanistan is winding down. European countries are, by and large, reducing their military spending. The United States is theoretically engaged in a pivot to the Pacific. NATO should be getting the message. Someone...
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Asking the Hard Questions about Israel

Posted by on Apr 4, 2014 in Articles, Featured, Human Rights, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments In 1948, the village of Tantura fell within the borders of the newly created state of Israel. It was a small, seaside village of approximately 1,200 residents, most of them Arab farmers and fishermen. As the war between Israel and its Arab neighbors escalated, Tantura became an important transit point for smuggling supplies to a clutch of Arab villages in the area. To sever this supply line, and...
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If I Didn’t Have a Hammer

Posted by on Mar 20, 2014 in Featured, Russia and Eastern Europe, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments For the long eight years of the George W. Bush administration, progressives decried the over-militarization of U.S. foreign policy. The Pentagon’s budget doubled, and U.S. military exports surged. Instead of deploying international law against Osama bin Laden, the United States deployed troops in Afghanistan. It went on to invade Iraq and threaten Iran. The Bush administration gave the CIA...
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My Strategic Impatience

Posted by on Mar 15, 2014 in Articles, Featured, Korea, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments It’s not easy for North Korea to grab headlines these days. Over the last couple weeks, Pyongyang launched several short-range missiles and rockets. They barely caused a ripple. The world has been focused on the showdown in Ukraine, the nuclear negotiations with Iran, and the Oscars. North Korea also barely registers on the U.S. policymaking agenda. Washington no longer holds out hope that the...
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Who Are the People?

Posted by on Mar 14, 2014 in Articles, Featured, Human Rights, Russia and Eastern Europe, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments The people have spoken. They have elected a government. No, wait, I hear the angry shouts of a demonstration in the streets. “We are the people,” they are crying. The crowd is getting larger and larger. They are pressing against the gates of parliament and the presidential palace. And now the government has fallen. The people have spoken. I don’t blame you for being just a little confused...
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