Category Foreign Policy
U.S. and Saudi Arabia: A Cold “Peace”, Part I
A number of issues have recently come to a head between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia. The most important is the Saudi Arabian connection to terrorism. This question is being decided in the federal courts, the U.S. Congress and between both countries. 60 Minutes recently produced a story on the “28 Pages” of […]
Flashback Friday: Senator Bob Graham and Authorization for the Iraq War
After last weekend’s Future of Florida Summit at the Bob Graham Center in Gainesville I began thinking in-depth about the lead up to the Iraq War once again. It’s become an issue in the face for both Presidential nominations and the war is in hindsight seen as a fatal mistake. While many in Washington in […]
The war over Iraq continues – and the GOP (minus Trump) is just wrong
Donald Trump’s debate performance on Saturday night in forcing a renewed discussion on 9/11, its aftermath and the ill-fated Iraq War has unnerved the GOP. Some GOPers have argued that the Iraq War was not all about Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD’s) – in that they are correct. WMD’s were simply used to SELL the […]
Republican condemnations of Trump show the US is different than so many other nations
Donald Trump’s call to ban Muslims from entering the country caused significant and justified outrage on both sides of the partisan divide on Monday. The swift reaction stands in stark contrast to what has happened in other countries when these sorts of comments have been made. For example in France, Marine Le Pen leads the […]
TFS Writers Discuss Syrian refugee crisis, House vote and Paris attacks
The TFS team of Katy Burnett, Brook Hines and Kartik Krishnaiyer discussed the Syrian refugee vote in Congress and the general causes of the rise of ISIS including the conduct in foreign policy of the Bush and Obama Administrations. Both administrations and parties bare some responsibility for the rise of ISIS and the destabilization of […]
TFS Radio 6 – Syrian Refugees, US as a State Sponsor of Terrorism #BlackLivesMatter, CD-13 Primary and more
This week, the TFS Radio Podcast was taped earlier on Tuesday night, and we are released it at around midnight Wednesday AM. You can listen any time at this link. Among the topics discussed are: Why the US has a moral obligation to accept Syrian refugees thanks to US policies that destabilized the Assad regime […]
Bill Maher, liberals and Islam – Does he have a point or am I a racist?
Bill Maher has railed against Islam often during his career, most recently on Friday night’s edition of Real Time with Bill Maher. (Pick up a copy of When You Ride Alone and you might understand his views a little bitter) Maher who proudly bashes all organized religions has somehow failed to distinguish the differences between […]
DeSantis Joining Rubio in Dangerous Foreign Policy views
Congressman Ron DeSantis is already a favorite of the right wing and Tea Party conservatives in Florida. Today he took it a step further by echoing the sentiments of Florida’s Junior Senator Marco Rubio on American foreign policy and the Iran deal in a letter to state government leaders. DeSantis who is seeking Rubio’s seat […]
Doctors without Borders Bombing Goes Largely Unnoticed
Any continued thoughts that the American press is serious about committing resources to covering American military excesses when the story is not so flattering was put the rest this week. Six days after the United States bombed an Afghan Hospital staffed by Médecins sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) finding any mention of it in the American press […]
Bernie Sanders, Jeremy Corbyn the Iraq War and the growth of “Democratic Socialism”
Jeremy Corbyn’s landslide win in the Labour Party elections last month was a shock to the system of many in the political establishment on both sides of the Atlantic. Former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair warned the party that it risked obscurity on a permanent basis if Corbyn won, yet Labour’s membership which spiked right […]
The Florida Squeeze 