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US Army in Iraq
Military Industrial Complex

American veterans know the cost of a military-first foreign policy

Those who have served have experienced first hand what it's like to fight in conflicts without clearly defined political goals or adequate tools of statecraft

U.S. Senate Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed appears on stage, with vote counting continuing for Michigan's Democratic U.S. Senate primary, during an election night rally in Detroit, Michigan
QiOSK

El-Sayed overcomes $30 million AIPAC spend, wins Michigan primary

His Senate race against Rep. Haley Stevens became a referendum on Israel for Democratic voters

Robert Kagan
Washington Politics

Robert Kagan: Sometimes US intervention is worth blowback

In a wide-ranging interview with RS, the hawkish historian talks primacy, neoconservatives, and why he opposes the war in Iran

John Thune Senate leadership
Washington Politics

Party elites so blind they can't see their base turning against the war

Numerous polls can't all be wrong. At some point there will be a reckoning with the out-of-touch Republican establishment in Washington.

Zelensky's dangerous gambit to merge the Iran and Ukraine Wars
Europe

Zelensky's dangerous gambit to merge the Iran and Ukraine Wars

Of course this would also appeal to Israel, prolonging the Middle East war and potentially drawing European governments into the theater, too.

South Carolina Senators Fritz Hollings and Lindsey Graham,
Washington Politics

Before Lindsey there was Fritz, an anti-Iraq war, Israel skeptic

On foreign policy the former senior senator from South Carolina was as far from Graham as one could get, and was quite quite unapologetic about it