BLOG Post #166: Chemical Warfare in Syria: The Question of Responsibility (Part 2) 2 May 20171 May 2017 PART 2 The Arguments of Supporters of Syria’s Claims Some readers may be inclined to believe the Syrian and Russian claims regarding the April 4 chemical attack on Khan Sheikhoun,…
BLOG Post #165: No Exit? The NY Times and North Korea 24 Apr 201723 Apr 2017 Three opinion pieces on US policy toward North Korea have appeared in the New York Times in the past week. They deserve critical comment. The writers are all very capable…
BLOG Post #164: The Wrong Way and the Right Way to Influence Adversaries 18 Apr 201717 Apr 2017 The Shape-Shifter In my previous post I pointed to the difficulty people in the media are having in figuring out where Donald Trump’s administration stands on foreign policy issues. He’s…
BLOG Post #163: The Guesswork About Trump’s Foreign Policy 13 Apr 201714 Apr 2017 In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to respond with force to use of chemical weapons by Bashar al-Assad’s government, various sources have, in my view, thoroughly misinterpreted the…
BLOG Post #162: Trump’s Shortsighted Intervention in Syria 9 Apr 20178 Apr 2017 Realism and Idealism Before April 6 The reaction of the Trump administration to the Syrian government’s use of sarin against innocent civilians raises important, and never resolved, questions about the…
BLOG Post #161: “They’ll Never Learn” Department: Trump and North Korea 5 Apr 20174 Apr 2017 As Donald Trump prepares to meet Xi Jinping, his administration is going down the old road of believing it can pressure China to solve the North Korea nuclear weapons problem—or…
BLOG Post #160: The Great Distracter 2 Apr 20172 Apr 2017 Three of Donald Trump’s latest ploys to distract attention from Russiagate have failed. First was Rep. Devin Nunes’ late night visit to the White House under escort by two staff…
BLOG Post #159: China From the Inside Out 28 Mar 201727 Mar 2017 China’s Moment? Who would have imagined that in the week of Donald Trump’s inauguration, China’s President Xi Jinping would tell an international audience that while one major country seems ready…
BLOG Post #158: Kicking the Can Down the Road: Tillerson in Beijing 21 Mar 201720 Mar 2017 Just when it seemed that the North Korea nuclear issue might cause a US-China collision, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s visit to Beijing brought a backing away. News reports rather…
BLOG Post #157: Trumpcare: An International Embarrassment 16 Mar 201715 Mar 2017 As I noted in my APB the other day (“The Freedom to be Unhealthy”), Paul Ryan justifies the current Trumpcare bill as promoting freedom—the right not to have to buy…
BLOG Post #156: What Is Rex Tillerson Up To? 11 Mar 201710 Mar 2017 You say the photo accompanying this post isn't of Rex Tillerson?That's right; it's because Tillerson never answers press questions, so various State Department employees are having to stand in for…
BLOG Post # 155: Mad About THAAD: An Untimely Decision 8 Mar 20177 Mar 2017 The US decision, supported by the South Korean government, to deploy an antimissile system known as THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) may be one of the most thoughtless strategic…
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