Mar 21, 2020 – In reality, the coronavirus outbreak in Iran has nothing to do with U.S. sanctions and everything to do with the regime’s own actions … The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) is effectively an arm of the Iranian regime’s Intelligence Ministry in the US. … The next day, NIAC co-hosted a “No War With Iran Strategy Call” that featured a number of pro-regime U.S. lawmakers.…

Apr 9, 2020 – But that is not the case. … Iran, too, is likely to continue using proxy forces to extract vengeance for the killing of their general last January.   … the U.S. is if our troops remain on the ground in the Middle East.…

Apr 13, 2020 – February 7: President Trump told reporters that the CDC is working with China on the coronavirus.  … at labs across the countryThe CDC is suspending all illegal entries to the country based on the public health threat, via Section … March 23: The Treasury Department announced it is working with the Federal Reserve to lend up to $300 billion to businesses and local…

Apr 23, 2020 – New York City is ground zero for the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak in the United States. … Over 42,000 Americans have died from the virus.  The good news is that it looks as if the worst is behind the Big Apple. … While the death toll is high, new hospitalizations have dropped, with medical centers discharging more coronavirus patients than they…

Apr 23, 2020 – China was beginning to lose the trade war with the U.S. even before the virus struck. … the costs of dealing with the virus have all bankrupted the country Iran can hardly expect help from its usual patrons -- China, Russia … And North Korea is embargoed and broke. How all three autocracies dealt with the coronavirus is censored.…

Apr 21, 2020 – the section it will end is the post-9/11 era. … The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing us into a new time, and our foreign policy must come to reflect that reality. … Bonnie Kristian is a fellow at Defense Priorities, contributing editor at The Week, and columnist at Christianity Today.…

May 16, 2020 – ) to cleanse the Castro regime from any taint of terror-sponsorship—at least for people with half-a-brain.  … Michael Flynn in "The Field of Fight." “This book argues that we are at war. … is putting the final nails in the coffin of Obama’s “Cuba opening.”…

May 15, 2020 – federal bureaucracy at war not only with his administration but, really, with the American people as a whole. … Whatever the case, and it may be a combination of them, the vigor with which he was pursued by the Obama administration is illustrated … Let us hope that the outcome of this war for our country’s soul results in a government that is once again subservient to the people…

Aug 7, 2019 – Yet we have had some very public disagreements with Germany: over the Paris climate deal and the Iran nuclear deal (German officials … The president is just as much a lightning rod in Europe as he is at home. … more with tact than with disdain, we clearly have our work cut out for us.…

Aug 1, 2019 – , and will remain, the frontrunner -- at least for the time being, and perhaps for the distance.   … His attention to the shifting future of the American employment landscape is important.   … And Kirsten Gillibrand is just the worst.  …

Aug 27, 2019 – Predator drone, to avoid killing Iranians, may not want a U.S. war with Iran. But the same cannot be said of Bibi Netanyahu. … Which is a pretty good description of the coastal defenses and naval forces of Iran. … While there is a cold peace with Egypt and Jordan, the Saudis and Gulf Arabs are temporary allies as long as the foe is Iran.…

Aug 20, 2019 – with the Taliban to bring about peace, and a U.S. withdrawal from America's longest war. … Moammar Gadhafi, Libya is still mired in civil war, with its capital, Tripoli, under siege. … The Philippines wants us to take their side in the dispute with China over tiny islets in the South China Sea.…

Sep 17, 2019 – Given Pompeo's public accusation that Iran was behind the attack, a Trump meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at the U.N. … -Iran-Saudi war would do to the world economy. … Divided again: The War Party is giddy with excitement over the prospect of war with Iran, while the nation does not want another war…

Sep 13, 2019 – Trump wanted to call off Cold War II with Russia, to engage with Vladimir Putin, and to extricate us from the Middle East wars into … We still have troops in Syria and Iraq and are closer to war with Iran than the day Trump took office. … What Mattis is saying is that Trump's goal of extracting us from the "forever war" entails too great a risk, and U.S. troops in Syria…

Sep 12, 2019 – the Taliban is the latest example of the effectiveness and strength of the strategy of the Trump negotiation team. … at the moment is the CIA, which is dragging its feet and failing to do its share of planning, funding and implementing a smart strategy … The bottom line is that optimal results can occur in a shortened timeframe, but not with the current leadership team at the CIA holding…

Sep 10, 2019 – "The president is entitled to the staff that he wants at any moment. … On Iran, Mnuchin said he, Pompeo and the president are committed to the maximum pressure campaign against the regime despite Bolton's … I don't think any leader around the world should make the assumption that because one of us departs, the president's foreign policy…

Sep 24, 2019 – The United Kingdom, France and Germany released a statement overnight backing the United States' assessment Iran is behind the recent … "It is clear to us that Iran bears responsibility for this attack. There is no other plausible explanation. … , proves Iran launched the attack. …

Sep 20, 2019 – s maximum pressure campaign on Iran is working and discussed additional sanctions being placed on the regime.  … We are at a level of sanction that is far greater than ever before with respect to Iran. … "In a failed attempt to disrupt the global economy, the Islamic Republic of Iran attacked the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.…

Sep 20, 2019 – President Donald Trump does not want war with Iran. America does not want war with Iran. … Still, if neither America nor Iran wants war, what has brought us to the brink? … Imposing on Iran the most severe sanctions ever by one modern nation on another, short of war, the U.S., through "maximum pressure,…

Oct 7, 2019 – to align with Assad and Iran.* Destroys Turkey’s relationship with U.S. … The decision to fight terrorism is not one we make that is made for us the decision we have is where do we fight terrorism. … Last month, after reports that Trump had planned to meet with the Taliban at Camp David for peace talks and Sen.…

Oct 15, 2019 – The only explanation for the contradiction is Sen. … Thus, the Saudis have begun negotiating with the Houthi rebels, with whom they have been at war in Yemen since 2015. … And they are seeking talks with Iran.…

Oct 14, 2019 – But Iran remains in first place with a wide field of contenders for silver and bronze. One of the later is undoubtedly Turkey. … At the time I had my conversation with the enlightened NSA officer, Turkey was a proud secular Moslem country.   … With Syria controlled by Iran, Turkey, and Russia, with nobody but themselves to keep one another in check, while a war with the U.S…

Oct 14, 2019 – exploit us – truly hate is the fact that the American people stood up in 2016 and demanded that our foreign policy stop sucking. … And we’re done with the elite cashing-in – have you noticed that all the outrage out there among the hoi polloi is directed not at … The lonely randos at The Bulwark, whatever that is, gives them four “Ahoys!”…

Oct 8, 2019 – At issue is Trump's decision to let the Turkish army enter Northern Syria, to create a corridor between Syrian Kurds and the Turkish … Syria from the eastern bank of the Euphrates to Iraq: "The Kurds fought with us, but were paid massive amounts of money and equipment … Saudi Arabia is tied down and arguably losing the war it launched against the Houthi rebels in 2015.…

Sep 17, 2022 – The United Nations is on the verge of welcoming one of the world’s worst violators of human rights to participate in the opening of … The US court system now has a responsibility to present Raisi with that complaint if and when he arrives in New York. … For that purpose, the US should either bar Raisi from attending at all, or hold him and other regime officials, such as Supreme Leader…