Cotton picks fight with legacies of Washington and John Q. Adams
The senator alternately dismisses and then tries to co-opt early foreign policy traditions to mask his tired interventionism.
The senator alternately dismisses and then tries to co-opt early foreign policy traditions to mask his tired interventionism.
What’s clear from their overheated rhetoric is they desperately want there to be an arms race. To what end, we can only imagine.
Hundreds of experts have signed a letter supporting Rob Malley after Iran deal opponents try to torpedo his appointment.
The Pentagon has more than it needs should it need to check China, but there’s a bipartisan push in Congress for more.
The Times’ recent decision to publish an op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton calling for the military to quash Black Lives Matter protests highlights a militaristic pipeline to the nation’s paper of record.
Trump unsurprisingly got some things wrong when he invoked the right to bear arms in his speech threatening to send the military to quell protests around the country.
In response, Beijing is likely to use its economic might and trigger a wide-ranging and flexible toolkit of coercive measures that it has used strategically throughout the world.
Attacking the Chinese over the coronavirus crisis will only lead to increased tensions and a weaker U.S. economy.
China has internal debates about strategy and policy, and U.S. officials must recognize this in order to enable more moderate perspectives.
Multilateralism provides the connective tissue that knits countries together precisely when they are most likely to go their own way.
Cotton’s slur against NIAC has nothing to do with curbing foreign influence and everything to do with trying to discredit a voice that has pointed out the futility of Cotton’s preferred policy on Iran of nothing but punishment, isolation, and the threat of war.
This is classic McCarthyism: alleging or insinuating, on the basis of no good evidence, that Americans whose political views you dislike are acting in the service of a foreign power.