Can President Trump Break Free of Conventional Wisdom about the Peace Process?
In U.S. foreign policy, there is no fouler cesspool than this.
May 22, 2017
Despite Waiving Sanctions, the White House Is Holding the Mullahs’ Feet to the Fire
No more misguided efforts to strengthen a band of faux “moderates.”
According to the terms of the 2015 nuclear agreement, the U.S. was obligated to decide last Wednesday whether to renew a waiver of sanctions against Iranian oil exports or declare Tehran in violation of the agreement and allow the sanctions to go back into effect. President Trump chose to sign the waiver, despite his campaign rhetoric condemning the deal. But, writes John Hannah, this decision hardly means that the Trump administration has gone soft in dealing with the Islamic Republic; on the same day, the White House issued seven new sanctions against individuals and entities involved in Iran’s ballistic-missile program. And that’s not all:
May 22, 2017
Despite Waiving Sanctions, the White House Is Holding the Mullahs’ Feet to the Fire
No more misguided efforts to strengthen a band of faux “moderates.”
Israel’s Expanding Relationship with Vietnam
The latest in Netanyahu’s pivot to Asia.
Sisters’ Boy
A story.
The “Irish Oskar Schindler”
Once portrayed on screen by Gregory Peck.