he West has suffered the delusion that a war on Muslim peoples of the Mideast would produce modernity and democracy. It is essential that the West cease its interference.

The Washington debates about the Syrian chemical weapons, and whether there is an Obama “Plan B” by which the United States may yet bomb Syria, seem deaf to what really happened last week. Russia delivered Syria, its ally, to international negotiations concerning those weapons ...

It would seem a piece of wisdom picked up on the school playground not to start a fight that you don’t know how to finish. U.S. President Barack Obama may have missed this lesson during his primary school experience in Indonesia. But perhaps the ...

War is war and murder is murder. The law draws the distinction. The American armed drone is a weapons system of war, not of policemen. And even if it were a police weapon (as it may, one fears, become in the future), the United ...

There are only three valid reasons why the Middle East, the focus of international attention as 2012 begins, is important to the United States and the European nations. These are energy, immigration and Israel. Beyond that, there is no evident cause for paying more ...

An implicit alliance has emerged in Washington since the Cold War’s end between avowedly “Wilsonian” liberals, anxious to extend American influence and federate the democracies, and unilateralist neoconservative believers in U.S. power projection, who call for American world leadership, aggressively imposed, for world society’s ...