President Trump’s threatened “decertification” of the 2015 agreement to constrain Iran’s nuclear program fits with his desire to negate all of President Obama’s achievements but won’t serve U.S. interests, says ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar.
Category: Foreign Policy
Russia-gate Jumps the Shark
Citadels of Paranoia: An Occupation by Phantoms
The frantic fear-mongering of American culture – Russians, North Koreans, Iranians, the Others are out to get us – has generated an alienation that fuels violence, globally and in random acts of murder, writes poet Phil Rockstroh.
The Illogical Assault on Iran Deal
Anti-Nuke Activists Win Nobel Prize
A Deaf Ear to Dire Russian Warnings
Agent Orange: Vietnam’s Ongoing Calamity
America’s Long History of Warfare
Americans like to view their country as a force for peace in the world when the historical reality is almost the opposite, a reality ignored by the PBS Vietnam War documentary, writes Lawrence Davidson.
Kurdish Referendum Roils the Mideast
The Kurdish referendum seeking independence from Iraq has created more uncertainty in the turbulent Mideast with Israel appearing to see value in the new chaos, reports ex-British diplomat Alastair Crooke.