Vice President Harris ends lackluster first visit to Southeast Asia
The administration is going to have to do a lot more than to troll China to show it’s diplomatically engaged with the region.
The administration is going to have to do a lot more than to troll China to show it’s diplomatically engaged with the region.
In her trip today, Vice President Kamala Harris again raised the specter of China ‘bullying’ and hopes for a strategic relationship.
An historian points out that our partners weren’t equipped to win without air support — but neither are we.
57 years after Senators Gruening and Morse made their lonely stand, lawmakers are still passively ceding war powers to the president.
We stand almost exactly where we did nearly 50 years ago: leaving a failed war behind with little to show for it but pain and regret.
One need only to look to Vietnam for how this alternative plays out in the real world.
Americans today are prisoners to a culture of endless war, militarism, and ever-rising defense spending.
Both Vietnam and Iraq remain bizarrely undigested, their true meaning yet to be discerned and acknowledged.
If Trump and Pompeo really want to de-escalate, that means not only backing off from more provocative and deadly kinetic acts; it also means backing off from the economic warfare that started the destructive cycle.