Turkey has an extensive history of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood and its offshoot Hamas, and far beyond. Turkey has collaborated with the worst jihadists, including ISIS. It is a particularly dangerous country, so much that it can be reasonably concluded that NATO would be reckless to continue to include it as a member. It should have […]
America’s Absurd Afghan War (Part One)
“The United States fought an impossible war in Afghanistan,” wrote the analysts Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Jonathan Schanzer from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) in 2014. The collected essays they edited in Allies, Adversaries & Enemies: America’s Increasingly Complex Alliances, available online, make for ever-relevant reading years later on the one-year anniversary of American […]