Why America should stay out of Syria
Daniel Larison | March 7, 2012Hawkish agitators are clamoring for the West to intervene in Syria's bloody civil war. That's a terrible, terrible idea
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The problem with political bloviating on China
Daniel Larison | February 21, 2012U.S. presidential candidates love to harp on the world's most populous nation. But once they're in office, they quickly start singing a different tune
The brewing proxy war in Syria
Daniel Larison | February 6, 2012As Western governments clamor for Bashar al-Assad's ouster, they roar toward a dangerous conflict with Syria's Russian and Iranian patrons
The West's inimical posturing on Iran
Daniel Larison | January 24, 2012The EU approves a ban on Iranian oil imports, but what the West really needs is a complete reappraisal of its dealings with Tehran
The GOP's massive Santorum-Paul schism
Daniel Larison | January 4, 2012Santorum is an unrepentant Bush-era interventionist. Paul is a fierce critic of U.S. interference abroad. And the GOP can't decide who's right
Newt Gingrich's dangerous, self-aggrandizing foreign policy
Daniel Larison | December 8, 2011The GOP presidential frontrunner sees the world in stark, apocalyptic terms that would be sure to endanger America should Gingrich win the White House
Europe's Catch-22
Daniel Larison | November 7, 2011Dissent over the debt crisis in Greece proves that Western governments can rarely have both fiscal austerity and democratic accountability
The war in Libya is still a failure
Daniel Larison | October 21, 2011Much of the world hails Moammar Gadhafi's death as a triumph for the West. But the war that toppled him remains misguided and illegal
Mitt Romney's alarmist foreign policy: Bush redux?
Daniel Larison | October 7, 2011The GOP presidential frontrunner offers a major policy address full of straw men, rhetorical relics, and shameless dishonesty
The real legacy of 9/11
Daniel Larison | September 12, 2011A decade after the attacks, America's "war on terror" still drains resources, mars our national reputation, and undermines our alliances
America's limited leverage in Syria
Daniel Larison | August 19, 2011The U.S. is finally telling Bashar al-Assad to leave power. But we're not the ones he'll listen to
America's shaky relationship with India
Daniel Larison | July 25, 2011A nuclear deal at the heart of America's friendship with India is being pilloried by critics in the world's largest democracy
The myth of American isolationists
Daniel Larison | July 7, 2011Neocons and liberal interventionists accuse the more restrained among us of fostering America's decline. But nothing could be further from the truth
The West's helplessness in Syria
Daniel Larison | June 10, 2011The U.S. should ignore calls from Congress and the media to take action against Bashar Al-Assad's bloody crackdown, because sadly, there's nothing we can do
The GOP revolt on Libya
Daniel Larison | June 6, 2011Major players in the reliably pro-war Republican Party fiercely oppose America's floundering war against Moammar Gadhafi, signaling a big shift in conservative politics
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