Reframing America’s role in the World: The Question of Isolationism
13 minute read. By Andrew Bacevich, Boston University, President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
UPDATED: After Iran retaliates, US-Iran tensions ease, and Trump remains isolated
This article was written by the same distinguished scholar whose piece we initially featured (found below) on the topic of Iran. However, this article has been written after the Iranian response, and both pieces are worth reading (Jan. 8th, 2019)
While the US and Iran risk a major war, Trump continues his ignorant recklessness
"President Donald Trump’s policy toward Iran is in deep crisis. The president’s approach has the support neither of America’s allies nor of its strategic rivals, China and Russia. And his policy – made even more confrontational by the shooting of a high-ranking Iranian official – has boxed him into a situation where, short of dramatic reversal, Washington and Tehran are edging close to war," writes Klaus W. Larres, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Jan. 8th, 2020)
VIDEO: I was involved in selling the fake reasons for the Iraq War. I’m seeing the same thing with Iran (6 minutes)
"I watched as the intelligence was cooked, as principals in the George W. Bush government were sold by that intelligence or helped to warp that intelligence... I’m watching the same thing again," says Lawrence Wilkerson, retired United States Army colonel, who served as Secretary of State Colin Powell’s chief of staff from 2002 to 2005 (Jan. 8th, 2020)
Andrew Bacevich – The last three decades of American foreign policy have been a colossal failure (Essay)
"Thirty years later, perhaps it’s time to assess just how well the United States has fulfilled the expectations President Bush articulated in 1990. Personally, I would rate the results somewhere between deeply disappointing and flat-out abysmal," writes Andrew Bacevich, Boston University, President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft (Jan. 8th, 2020)
Video and Transcript: Congressman Ro Khanna on the irresponsible withdrawal from Syria
Watch Congressman Ro Khanna and scholar Ozlem Goner (City University of New York) discuss President Trump's abrupt decision regarding Syria (Oct. 23rd, 2019)
Trump’s Syria policy is Dangerous: Innocent Civilians will Suffer (Essay)
"The Trump administration decision to allow Turkey to have a free ride in Rojava, North-East Syria opens the door for new disasters for all, especially the civilians on the ground. More, it confirms the decline of US power in the Middle East and globally," write Vassilis K. Fouskas and Bulent Gokay, University of East London and Keele University (Oct. 16th, 2019)