Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- November 21, 2018





Christian Whiton, National Interest: Trump Is Right About Saudi Arabia

Trump made a decision to put U.S. interests ahead of the passions of a moralistic chattering class that has no idea about how to defend America.

The meltdown over President Donald Trump’s decision to stick with Saudi Arabia despite a human-rights tiff was predictable if melodramatic.

Senator Bob Corker, the outgoing anti-Trump chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said “I never thought I’d see the day a White House would moonlight as a public relations firm for the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.”

Not to be outdone, Joseph Cirincione, the president of the globalist Ploughshares Fund, said the statement “raises serious questions about the President’s fitness for office.”

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- November 21, 2018

Trump Sides With the Iran Hawks on Saudi Arabia -- Curt Mills, National Interest

Khashoggi’s Murder Will Stain Trump (and America) Forever -- Karen Attiah, Washington Post

Trump's Utter Denial About Saudi Arabia & Crown Prince
-- Robin Wright, New Yorker

Jim Mattis says US has no choice but to deal with Saudi Arabia -- Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner

Erdogan, MBS, Islamic leadership and the price of silence -- Pepe Escobar, Asia Times

Why Saudi Arabia's foreign policy is failing -- Marwan Kabalan, Al Jazeera

China's race for dominance -- Peter Morici, Washington Times

Has Duterte 'surrendered' to Beijing on the South China Sea? -- Ana P. Santos, DW

What Xi did and didn’t give Duterte -- Richard Javad Heydarian, Asia Times

Can EU states block Brexit deal? -- Reuters

The many possible outcomes of Brexit, explained -- Jen Kirby, VOX

Moldova Considers Adopting the Global Magnitsky Act -- John Cappello, RCD

Mexican president-elect's new plan to fight crime looks like the old plan -- David Agren, The Guardian

Does Venezuela Sponsor Terrorism? Donald Trump is Trying to Force Maduro From Power, Experts Say -- Robert Valencia, Newsweek

How Mark Zuckerberg became a wartime CEO -- Casey Newton, The Verge

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