It is hard to do better the day before a showdown in Syria than spending an hour with Joshua Landis and Ammar Abdulhamid of the Tharwa Foundation:
Landis has not been thinking the regime would crumble now. But these things are difficult to predict. Ammar is right that nonviolence is the way to go.
Surrender of the strait to Iran and retreat from the Middle East will weaken the…
The Iranians will try to impose unilaterally a permanent toll on passage through the strait…
Trump is in peril of losing all but his most loyal voters. No wonder he…
Trump is stuck in a war of his own making. But it is the rest…
Trump wants to pull the plug. The Israelis don't. And the Iranians are demanding outcomes…
A year from now, we are likely to be remembering a highly effective military operation…