By Richard Schulman With the wisdom of hindsight, we think the US made a big mistake in leaving Nicolás Maduro in power in Venezuela, faced only with economic sanctions that almost never bring about the downfall of a dictatorship, just more deprivation to powerless citizens. Chile, Colombia uprisings The leftist-instigated arson and urban uprisings in […]
The US still has no well-thought-out Mideast policy
by Richard Schulman Strong differences among policy professionals regarding President Trump’s precipitous withdrawal of US protection of its Kurdish allies underlines the fact that the administration has no well-thought-out Mideast policy. Indeed, confusion and recriminations are now widespread within the administration itself, the US military, congressional Republicans, and the general public. The White House is […]
Iran emboldened by non-response to its attacks
We believe President Trump made a mistake in pulling back at the last minute from responding militarily to two months of increasingly hostile actions against the US and its allies by Iran and its proxies. These attacks culminated in the shooting down of a sophisticated US Global Hawk surveillance drone over international waters. The drone […]
Why does atheist China have Muslim and Buddhist allies?
Why are Muslim and Buddhist countries allies of an atheist China that murders their co-religionists? Key Muslim-majority countries allied with China include Pakistan, Iran, Syria, and Turkey. Yet Chinese persecution of its Uighur Muslim population in Xinjiang is disgraceful and extreme. Key Buddhist-majority countries allied with China include Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar. But China’s persecutions […]
