President Donald Trump walks with U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Michael Howard, commander of Joint Force Headquarters, at Arlington National Cemetery, May 29, 2017. Behind them are Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis and U.S. Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (Flickr/CreativeCommons/DOD photo by U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Brigitte N. Brantley)
Philip Giraldi, American Conservative: Make No Mistake, We Are Already at War in Syria
Trump's anti-war promises were just glib campaign rhetoric.
Something peculiar happens to American presidents after they take office on January 20.
Campaign promises to right the easily perceived misdirections in foreign policy are abandoned, and the new program for dealing with the rest of the world winds up looking very much like the old one. Bill Clinton was an anti-Vietnam War draft dodger who preached the moral high ground for going to war before he turned around and got involved in the Balkans while also bombing Sudan and Afghanistan. George W. Bush promised non-interference and no nation-building overseas, but 9/11 converted him into an exemplar of how to do everything wrong as he sank into the quagmires of Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- July 3, 2017
Why Afghanistan? Why Now? -- Roy Scranton, Daily Beast
China, Russia plan deal on new Far East transport routes -- Irina Drobysheva, Asia Times
A Necessary Alliance: Neither South Korea Nor The U.S. Can Take On North Korea Alone -- Scott Snyder, Forbes
China, India border dispute bubbles over once more, but no one is quite sure why -- Shi Jiangtao, South China Morning Post
Tarnished Abe Plunged Into Crisis After Tokyo Election Loss -- Isabel Reynolds and Yuki Hagiwara, Bloomberg
US arms sales a morale booster for Taiwan, says Tsai Ing-wen -- Lawrence Chung, South China Morning Post
Hong Kong’s uneasy deal with China -- CSM Editorial
Duterte’s Year of Sound and Fury -- Ronald Holmes & Mark Thompson, The Diplomat
Emmanuel Macron vows to transform France in Versailles speech -- Angelique Chrisafis, The Guardian
Putin Seeking to Build Edifice of Great Power on a Base of Sand -- Daniel Gouré, RCD
First meeting for Trump and Putin: what will the power dynamics reveal? -- Julian Borger, The Guardian
What’s Next for Venezuela? -- Whitney Eulich, US News and World Report
The B-movie playing out in Venezuela could have a tragic twist -- Irish Times/Financial Times
Your place or mine? Texas liberals and California conservatives swap states -- Tom Dart, The Guardian
For a More Regulated Internet, Thank Canada -- Noah Feldman, Bloomberg
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