Whenever there’s a terrorist attack even a botched one like last week on a Paris-bound train the debate turns to tightened security and retaliation. But a key part of a realistic campaign to reduce terrorism is to address underlying causes that…
Category: Foreign Policy
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The Case for Pragmatism
Propaganda and the Iran-Nuke Deal
American Jews Split from Netanyahu
The Riddle of Obama’s Foreign Policy
Iraq’s Off-Point ‘Reforms’
After a U.S.-engineered “regime change” comes the dreamy period of “reform” — redrawing organizational boxes, slashing government programs and “privatizing” national assets, but rarely a commitment to realistic compromise among rival ethnic and political forces, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar describes in Iraq.