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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