The problem with red lines is that, while they may provide our adversaries with clear guidelines, they can box us in and make it very difficult to maneuver and be more flexible in new circumstances… On January 12, 1950, then-Secretary of State Dean Acheson gave a speech at the National Press Club describing in detail [...]
How is it that so many Senators on both sides of the aisle, and media outlets ranging from liberal to conservative, seem so fixated on goading the Trump Administration into confrontation with Vladimir Putin and Russia…? It never fails to get a few chuckles and more than a few eye rolls whenever a worn-out comedian [...]
Since the founding of the Republic, “American Exceptionalism” has been a guiding principle for candidates seeking high office. Next only to a professed belief in God, a firm, if often unfounded, insistence in our benign and beneficent superiority to all other nations and cultures is indispensable for aspiring leaders. From Lincoln’s elegant warning that America [...]