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trump's flawed turkey-first strategy betrays christians and yazidis

It resurrects Islamic State and Qaeda threat, empowers Islamic State's enabler, and gives Iran opening to expand its reach by forcing Kurds into Bashar Assad's embrace. ..

beyond counterterrorism: defeating the salafi-jihadi movement

Countering Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea will draw on many of the same intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) assets that support the current counterterrorism strategy and raises the question of that strategy’s viability with reduced resources even outside its effectiveness. ..

waging war on iran would be madness

All nations the US does not control are on its target list for regime change, especially challengers to its hegemonic aims like China and Russia, along with oil rich ones like Iran and Venezuela.. ... It Iran is attacked, the region would boil over much more than already, including the US..

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