Posts Tagged: Donald Trump foreign policy
Trump Handed Syria to Turkish Dictator Erdogan and Helped ISIS in the Process
Former US president Barack Obama promised that if evidence emerged proving that Bashar al-Assad had used chemical weapons on the Syrian people, the US would...
Do Americans Have Foreign-Policy Principles or Just Partisan Interests?
JNS.org - As a general rule, the average American doesn’t care much about foreign policy as long as the discussion doesn’t involve sending Americans to...
Trump’s Disgraceful Letter to Erdogan
It is no wonder that every person and news outlet that saw Donald Trump’s letter to Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan thought it was a...
Troop Withdrawals in Afghanistan and Syria Are Guaranteed to Fail
JNS.org - The Trump administration has held numerous meetings with Taliban officials in an attempt to reach a compromise solution that would allow the United...
The Big Winners in Syria: ISIS and Iran
JNS.org - The withdrawal of American forces from northern Syria and the abandonment of the Kurds to the mercy of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...
US Foreign Policy: No Principles, No Dignity, No Power, No Deterrence
JNS.org - People without principles and dignity do not understand that these are sources of tangible power that create deterrence. People who evade projecting those...
‘America First’ Is an Anti-American Doctrine
In the 17th century, English philosopher Thomas Hobbes warned famously against anarchy in world politics, a condition that he associated with a “war of all...
Donald Trump’s ‘Obama Moments’ in Syria and the Gulf
On June 3, 2019, President Donald Trump tweeted: “Hearing word that Russia, Syria and, to a lesser extent, Iran, are ‘bombing the hell’ out of...
Candidate Biden Says Trump’s Foreign Policies Have Harmed America’s Standing
Former Vice President Joe Biden, in his first major foreign policy address as a Democratic presidential candidate, on Thursday blasted US President Donald Trump's performance...
Trump’s Saudi Arms Sale Is About Politics and Economics, Not Security
President Trump wants to use his emergency powers to sell billions of dollars’ worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia on national security grounds. Congress wants...
Does Trump’s Lack of Critical Thinking Undermine US Security?
The core problems of American national security are not about weapons or tactics. Those complex problems can never be resolved simply by ramping up lethal...
Can Donald Trump Be Trusted With America’s Nuclear Weapons?
“The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.” (Albert Einstein, May 1946) Albert Einstein,...
‘America First’ Undermines American Ideals — and Our Humanity
While stunningly counter-intuitive, the critical gap between technical intelligence and human empathy is more insidious than ever before. In response, one fundamental question should spring...
‘Trump’s War’ on Iran Isn’t Coming
JNS.org - A few hours after US President Donald Trump announced on May 8 that the United States had exited the Iran nuclear deal, the doyenne of...
