by jpitney | Nov 5, 2023 | Foreign Policy, Reagan
William Safire discussed the “moral equivalence” arguments of 40 years ago: I checked with William F. Buckley, who helped popularize the current sense of the phrase, and the inventor of modern conservatism reports: ”Moral equivalence is a handy...
by jpitney | Nov 4, 2023 | Foreign Policy
George F. Will at WP: Today, there are three recklessly led nuclear powers — China lawlessly rampant in neighboring seas, Russia trying to violently revise European borders and North Korea. A fourth, Iran, is impending. And now, the post-World War II U.S. consensus...
by jpitney | Oct 18, 2023 | Foreign Policy, Israel, Terrorism
Mark Murray at NBC: A majority of American college students blame Hamas for the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, and two-thirds describe the attack as an act of terrorism by Hamas, according to a Generation Lab poll of two- and four-year college students. The findings come as...
by jpitney | Oct 9, 2023 | Foreign Policy, Higher Education, Israel
Jewish News Service: Jews for Liberation is one of dozens of Harvard student group signatories to a joint statement of Harvard “Palestine solidarity groups on the situation in Palestine.” “We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely...
by jpitney | Oct 7, 2023 | Foreign Policy, International Relations, Israel, Nixon
Hamas attacked Israel on the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War. In 1973, Richard Nixon prevented Israel’s annihilation. From the Nixon Foundation: Richard Nixon’s role, and that of those within his Administration, in the Yom Kippur War has been credited...
by jpitney | Aug 15, 2023 | China, Foreign Policy, Trade
A POLITICO article by Terril Yue Jones of the Claremont McKenna College Department of Government: Yntil recently, Qin Gang was one of China’s most prominent American experts and influential policymakers. But after a mysterious, month-long disappearance from public...
