Rough waters ahead for Afghan withdrawal optics
The pressure on Biden is increasing as the Taliban take more territory by the day, and the Pentagon continues to send mixed signals.
The pressure on Biden is increasing as the Taliban take more territory by the day, and the Pentagon continues to send mixed signals.
Ebrihim Raisi came out swinging at his first press conference, indicating new challenges ahead for Washington-Tehran diplomacy.
On a host of issues, especially Ukraine, Biden kicked the can down the road. Let’s hope it’s not a grenade that’ll explode in our faces.
In his new book, the long time US foreign policy critic says some radical approaches are in order, ‘After the Apocalypse.’
Normalizing relations with the island would go a long way towards promoting one of the president’s “core pillars” of US foreign policy.
The summit with Russian President Putin elicited some modest progress, but on the big security questions, a missed opportunity.
As their summit approaches, some serious thoughts on how Biden and Putin can pursue a negotiated peace in a fractured land.
The president is bringing good — and bad — ideas for drawing partners into his East Asia policy in his suitcase. Will the right ones prevail?
And it’s a head-scratcher, since his campaign once called Trump’s withdrawal of the Cold War agreement ‘short-sighted.’
The president is going full speed ahead on beefing up the triad and expensive modernization — despite cries from his own party.
Selling war and death should be no joy for any country, so halting it is a goal well worth fighting for.
Respect for life, dignity, and liberty should undergird foreign policy. But that doesn’t justify reckless, harmful intervention.
In fact, GOP presidents were much tougher on Tel Aviv in the wake of its aggression against neighbors, settlements, and civilian attacks.
Members of Congress are pressing President Biden to put the squeeze on Riyadh, and to use weapons sales as leverage.
So far, the White House has been vague, even contradictory, when it comes to its strategy for restarting talks with Pyongyang.
Democratic Rep. Anthony Brown is disingenuous when he says the military will be cut to offset costs for bold plans at home.
Beijing downplays the US-led initiative but reacts sharply to its possible expansion.
If the president wants to prove that ‘diplomacy is back,’ he needs to step it up and start shedding past failed approaches.
Tucked into this 400-page document is a recipe for keeping ‘maximum pressure’ on Kim Jong Un and a 70-year war going.
Beltway policymakers are routinely threatening war with Beijing without seriously considering the possibility of losing.
On China, Afghanistan, defense budget, climate crisis and the Middle East — a bit of a mixed bag, say Quincy experts.