Terminal Velocity
I am a retired foreign service officer and ambassador and have been a lecturer on foreign affairs at the University of Washington since 2017. I am a political progressive and a strong advocate for restraint in American foreign and security policy.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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The Blob's Goldilocks Idiocy
Most of you are probably lucky enough that you don’t have to read Foreign Affairs. I will join you in a year, but for now I have to pay attention to this sad mouthpiece for The Blob.
The current offerings are a perfect picture of the utter...
Kudos to Tehran
I think Iran deserves some credit right now - as hard as it is for Americans to give it - for an intelligent and agile military, diplomatic and strategic response to illegal US/Israeli aggression. This is not to say that the Islamic Republi...
What to Make of the US-Iran Ceasefire
Terrorism.
This morning, looking at the current state of the illegal US/Israeli aggression against Iran (and Lebanon), I finally realized something simple:
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My Semiquincentennial
I don’t know what to think about the Semiquincentennial of the Declaration of Independence. Perhaps it’s just me; I find it hard right now to celebrate this country that I love. Too much is going wrong in our government, economy, society an...
Blob Slop
The Blob - the American foreign and security policy establishment - is generating ever more slop. Writing the same article over and over again, from the same worn-out perspective of “great power competition” and “American exceptionalism”. T...
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