Targeting the ICC: Misguided sanctions imposed yet again
Team Trump’s show of force this week against the ICC was a metaphor for its disdain for international law and institutions.
Team Trump’s show of force this week against the ICC was a metaphor for its disdain for international law and institutions.
The coronavirus outbreak has made a bad situation worse for so many, particularly Afghan refugees inside Iran.
While the COVID-19 pandemic is strangling Afghanistan, the country’s leaders are still in the beginning stages of negotiations to end decades of conflict.
The U.S. is acting to undermine the legitimate work of a treaty-based international court that steps in only where national courts do not conduct genuine investigations or prosecutions of serious international crimes
The Trump administration’s attempt to interfere with the International Criminal Court, simply because it is investigating Americans, is uniquely perverse.
The coronavirus doesn’t care whether there’s a war going on in Afghanistan, which makes the resource-starved country’s humanitarian crisis even worse.
Many have compared the U.S.-Taliban agreement to Vietnam but Afghanistan doesn’t fit neatly into a North-South divide.
Although the U.S.-Taliban agreement is weak and unclear, withdrawing even some U.S. forces from Afghanistan will reduce the killing.
An attack this week on an Iraqi base that killed two U.S. service members, and the U.S. military response, should serve as a reminder that endless war isn’t just confined to Afghanistan.
The coronavirus isn’t just a general public health and economic threat. It can also impede prospects for peace.
A power sharing agreement between the Taliban and the Afghan government is going to be extremely difficult and the available evidence indicates that the violence and tension will not end any time soon.
The former vice president also doesn’t have much to say about the Obama administration’s foreign policy failures.
The Taliban now must start negotiations on a power sharing arrangement with the Afghan government.
The U.S. would have been better off defining victory by adapting to local ways of war and peace.
To create peace and stability in other nations, we must elevate their people to prosperity, instead of crushing them.
The escalation in U.S.-Iran tensions has implications for Iran’s eastern neighbors, who want to prevent a major new conflict on their borders.
Instead of declaring victory and pulling out, the Very Serious People in Washington want the U.S. declare a stalemate and stay in.
Leaving militarily does not mean leaving all together. The United States should continue to pursue its Middle East interests diplomatically and economically.
Few noticed Trump’s recent offer to work with Iran to combat ISIS and on other “shared priorities.”
War profiteering is one thing. Funding the enemy who kills your own troops is quite another. Such a concept is inherently a Catch 22.
The DC foreign policy elite moved quickly to try to downplay the Afghanistan papers to keep the U.S. military there indefinitely.