Ukraine Crisis Reminds Americans Why NATO Should Not Expand
By Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute (@Doug_Bandow) | 7/30/2014 The ongoing strife in Ukraine is a crime by Moscow and tragedy for Kiev. It’s also a warning for America. Washington should...
View ArticleThis Means War!
By George Rasley, CHQ Editor | 9/4/2014 Rep. Frank Wolf sees the threat to our national security posed by the Islamic State as being so dire that he is taking the unprecedented step of introducing...
View ArticleWhy Should U.S. Defend Turkey From Islamic State When Turks Aided Extremists’...
By Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute (@Doug_Bandow) | 9/9/2014 The Islamic State is a much more significant threat against Middle Eastern states, such as Turkey, than it is to America. These...
View ArticleU.S. and Russia Must Find Exit to Ukraine Impasse
By Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute [@Doug_Bandow] | 12/2/2014 Obama has no plausible strategy to reverse Putin’s policy toward Ukraine. While sanctions may be hurting Russia in the short...
View ArticleU.S. Must Tell Ukraine No to Joining NATO
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute [@Doug_Bandow] | 12/30/2014 Ukraine is a security black hole and past NATO expansion has added members with minimal militaries and extensive problems. No...
View ArticleAmerica Should Charge the World for Defending It
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow Cato Institute Most Republican Party presidential candidates insist that Washington do more on behalf of its already subsidized, protected, coddled, and reassured allies....
View ArticleWhy is America Adding Montenegro to NATO?
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow Cato Institute [@Doug_Bandow] NATO originally was created to act as a firebreak to war. Current policy threatens to turn it into a transmission belt of war. After getting...
View ArticleForeign Liberals Shouldn’t be Liberal with American Lives and Money
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow Cato Institute [@Doug_Bandow] Nothing in liberal philosophy requires residents of the globe’s most powerful “liberal” nation to bankrupt themselves, sacrifice their liberty,...
View ArticlePoland Wants Britain to Help Stick Washington with Bigger NATO Bill
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow Cato Institute [@Doug_Bandow] No one seriously expects the Dutch, Italians, or Spanish to provide permanent garrisons for Poland. The Germans, who publicly oppose the idea,...
View ArticleWhy are America’s Allies so Persistently Pathetic?
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow Cato Institute [@Doug_Bandow] Washington’s allies generally are a pathetic lot. Benefiting from sizeable and capable populations and enjoying large and advanced economies,...
View ArticleWill Trump Put ‘America First’?
Patrick J. Buchanan, The American Conservative Trump is challenging the mindset of a foreign policy elite whose thinking is frozen in a world that disappeared around 1991. He is suggesting a new...
View ArticleMust America Do More To Satisfy Paranoid Members Of NATO?
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute [@Doug_Bandow] When NATO was created Western Europe was a wreck. Today the GDP and population of united Europe is greater than those of America and a...
View ArticleOur Impulsive Foreign Policy Establishment
Patrick J. Buchanan, The American Conservative Donald Trump calls the NATO alliance a rip-off, a tripwire for World War III and “obsolete.” Hillary Clinton compares Putin’s actions in Ukraine to...
View ArticleStop Treating NATO as a Social Club
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow Cato Institute [@Doug_Bandow] NATO lost its raison d’etre once the Warsaw Pact disbanded and Soviet Union collapsed. Alliance officials debated a host of possible new...
View ArticleTurkey in Crisis: Another Lesson Why U.S. Should Avoid Foreign Meddling
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow Cato Institute [@Doug_Bandow] Washington should not be isolated from the world, but it should stop attempting to forcibly transform the world. In Turkey the U.S. has found...
View ArticleObama’s Jimmy Carter Moment Coming In Turkey
George Rasley, CHQ Editor | 8/1/2016 History tells us that there can be no real or lasting cooperation with Islamist regimes, yet Obama has regularly sided against secular forces and with Muslim...
View ArticleToss Turkey Out Of NATO
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow Cato Institute [@Doug_Bandow] Today Turkey undermines U.S. and European security. As Ankara moves toward an authoritarian one-party state, its membership in NATO becomes...
View ArticleTrump: Why Should America Defend Europeans Who Won’t Defend Themselves?
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow Cato Institute [@Doug_Bandow] “Many NATO nations are not making payments, are not making what they’re supposed to make,” Trump has complained.” He “would prefer not to...
View ArticleDonald Trump has Upset America’s Allies: They Should be Disturbed
Doug Bandow [@Doug_Bandow] The U.S. is expected to protect virtually every prosperous, populous, industrialized nation. But that’s just a start. Washington also must coddle, pamper, praise, uplift,...
View ArticleWashington’s First Obligation is to Defend America, not the World
Doug Bandow [@Doug_Bandow] Former NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s greatest fear appears to be that Donald Trump might be elected and end Washington’s unique global role: “What is at...
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