Mike Waltz has called for a “credible military option” against Iran, wants to “take the handcuffs off” Ukraine, and regrets ending the "multi-generational war" in Afghanistan.
Democrats assumed they could campaign as neoconservatives while keeping Middle Eastern votes. They were wrong.
Israel is getting U.S. troops and Saudi Arabia is getting billions of dollars' worth of American weapons.
The first debate question was a pitch for war with Iran. Tim Walz and J.D. Vance both dodged it.
Many conservatives saw the Abraham Accords as a way to get U.S. forces out of the Middle East. Now the architect of the agreement is pushing for a regime change campaign in Lebanon—and maybe Iran.
Washington risks Americans’ lives in wars of choice, then uses their deaths to justify more war.
Kamala Harris couldn’t realistically say how she would end the war in Gaza, and Donald Trump couldn’t realistically say how he would end the war in Ukraine.
The New Yorker sued for photos of the Haditha killings in Iraq—and found audio of a Marine general bragging about covering up those photos.
Both Israeli hostage families and Palestinian Americans want the war to end with a prisoner exchange. But that isn’t moving Democratic policy.
The president is reversing a ban on selling offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia and advancing taxpayer-funded military aid to Israel.
War on Terror fears and the CIA’s torture program kept Khalid Sheikh Mohammed out of civilian courts—and prevented true justice from being served.
Israeli leaders have been betting on a U.S.-Iranian war for a while. After this week, it might be at their doorstep.
The late U.S. diplomat helped form America’s policies towards Iran, Iraq, and Israel. By the end of his life, he'd had enough.
The wars aren’t over. America is still fighting—directly and indirectly—in the Middle East, Africa, and Eastern Europe.
The president who helped end America’s longest war now regrets leaving behind U.S. bases.
The candidate makes the case against the two-party system.
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In his State of the Union address, Biden promised indefinite U.S. involvement in Ukraine, Gaza, Yemen, and beyond.
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Our troops are just sitting there with targets on their backs. Why?
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Revoking the 1991 and 2002 authorizations for the use of military force would be a good start, but the 2001 authorization has been used dozens of times to justify conflicts in numerous countries.
Are we stumbling into disaster? Again?
There’s no vital U.S. interest served by this indefinite advise-and-assist mission in the region.
What was a local conflict is shaping up as a battle between alliances.
After one year, whatever morale boost Biden’s visit provided won’t necessarily have concrete, strategic effects in Ukraine.
Lawmakers are once again trying to reclaim their war powers through AUMF repeal.
His State of the Union address sketched a foreign policy that is reckless on some points, relatively restrained on others, and utterly uninterested in any real resolution to America’s lingering military entanglements.
It was a blunder. Worse than that, it was a crime.
But a few remnants of post-9/11 foreign and domestic policy still need to be thrown out.
Our drones still patrol the skies, and our tax dollars will be paying off the costs of failed nation-building for decades.
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The hubristic idea that America could successfully nation-build in Afghanistan was a bipartisan delusion for nearly two decades.
