U.S. President Donald Trump talks to reporters about Turkey's agreement to a ceasefire in Syria as he arrives in Fort Worth, Texas, U.S., October 17, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst.
Daniel R. DePetris, The National: Trillion-Dollar Question: Will Donald Trump Really End the 'Endless Wars'?
The phrase “end the forever wars” is now vulnerable to becoming one more campaign slogan without much substance. For the majority of the American people desperately in search of a smarter, shrewder, more restrained foreign policy, that would be a shame.
Like all presidential candidates, Donald Trump made a boatload of promises when he was running for the nation’s top job in 2016. He was the overly blunt, prickly, obnoxious non-politician who was going to turn the United States around with lower taxes, more jobs, a booming economy, fewer federal regulations, and a complete overhaul of the country’s broken immigration system.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- November 8, 2019
Turkey's Operation Peace Spring in northern Syria: One month on -- Umut Uras, Al Jazeera
Princes at war in the Gulf -- France 24
Baghdadi’s terrifying rise from football-obsessed student to self-styled caliph -- Leela Jacinto, France 24
Countering lies with truth: Battling terrorist propaganda in East Africa -- Brig. Gen. Miguel Castellanos, Military Times
How Saudi Arabia monitors and intimidates its critics abroad -- Tom Allinson, DW
Two Years After Mugabe’s Fall, Zimbabwe Returns to the Abyss -- James Hamill, WPR
South Koreans Are Pleading for a Breakthrough in the US–North Korea Talks -- Tim Shorrock, The Nation
What does the US want from China? What is its endgame? -- David Grossman, BBC
Will Poland join atomic energy club? -- Maria Wilczek, Al Jazeera
Von der Leyen: 'Europe must learn the language of power' -- DW
The post-Wall, Cold War world of Hans Modrow, East Germany’s last leader -- France 24
A Russian View on the Fall of the Berlin Wall, 30 Years On -- Andrei Kolesnikov, Moscow Times