Oh, Magog!

Posted by on Apr 8, 2018 in Articles, Featured, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments Welcome back, Gog and Magog. I can’t say that I’ve missed you. You might remember the Gog and Magog story from 2003, when George W. Bush was making plans to invade Iraq and assembling a “coalition of the willing.” French President Jacques Chirac was quite unwilling, so Bush went to great lengths to break down his resistance. As part of this wooing of Chirac, Bush referred to the Biblical...
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Big Surprise: Rich Globalists Love Trump

Posted by on Apr 7, 2018 in Articles, Featured, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments As a candidate, Donald Trump enjoyed pillorying the globalists. “We will no longer surrender this country, or its people, to the false song of globalism,” he said in his first major speech on foreign policy in April 2016. By globalists, he first of all meant rival Hillary Clinton, who represented the face of American internationalism as a jet-setting secretary of state and an it-takes-a...
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Dr. Evil’s First Year in Office

Posted by on Mar 2, 2018 in Articles, Featured, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments Evil is a popular topic in Hollywood, from The Evil Dead franchise to Dr. Evil in the Austin Powers movies. But evil makes only the occasional cameo in the U.S. policy realm. In the early 1990s, the topic of evil became buzz-worthy in the wake of the Cold War’s collapse as pundits and policymakers tried to understand the unfolding horrors in Iraq, Yugoslavia, and Rwanda. In June...
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A Foreign Policy of Sticks and Stones

Posted by on Mar 2, 2018 in Articles, Featured, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments The United States has never invaded Norway. It has never bombed Oslo. It has never rounded up Norwegians and thrown them in Guantanamo. Perhaps some U.S. diplomats have referred to the country as a “shithole” — because the food’s rather bland and the nightlife rather staid — but the important thing is that the United States has never treated Norway as a “shithole.” Between the...
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What Happens When Bad Money Supports Good Foreign Policy

Posted by on Dec 29, 2017 in Articles, Featured, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments In November, the Charles Koch Foundation announced that it would provide nearly $4 million in grants to Harvard University and MIT to train the next generation of foreign policy professionals. It’s part of the foundation’s effort to steer U.S. foreign policy away from its emphasis on military intervention and big Pentagon budgets. Yes, that’s right: Charles Koch. He’s the same fellow...
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Trump’s New Blame Game

Posted by on Dec 29, 2017 in Articles, Featured, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments As a candidate, Donald Trump rallied voters against a variety of enemies. He vilified Mexicans. He stereotyped Muslims. And he went after the Chinese for “raping” the United States. President Trump still wants to build that wall along the border with Mexico. He’s still trying to keep out Muslim immigrants. As for China, all signs have pointed to more conflict. The trade gap between the...
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