I want to echo you especially on what you said in the last paragraph regarding the most difficult challenges to be faced by Harris as the new president. While the US still remains at the top, its global power is diminishing and in the increasingly multipolar world (or at least moving in that direction) the US foreign policy needs to change.
i concur. another great post. all kinds of trenchant observations on the world’s viper nest. what are the roots of Iran’s enmity for Israel. i know so little about the region, but of all the countries that would like to see Israel erased from the map, why do they seem the most determined?
Another solid post Ethan. I've always found it perplexing how long-lasting Iraq Study Group and Obama's thinking (apparently heavily influenced by the former) about the Islamic Republic of Iran has been in Democrat foreign policy circles despite the consistent evidence to the contrary. The assumption that a US pullback from Iraq and the region was going to make Iran an actor interested in stability seems like a counter-delusion to the delusion the 2003 Iraq War.
Not is america politically disfunctional, but in many other ways even worse: gun safety, lack of equal rights, medical, in America is lifespan the lowest compared to other countries, healthcare is the worse etc, etc.
“Some of the most difficult challenges a President Harris would face will be how to reverse pervasive risk aversion; rebuild American professional foreign policy and national security bureaucracies after decades of erosion and politicization, and re-articulate what America stands for, at home and abroad.”
As usual, you cut to the heart of the situation, Ethan. Really excellent post!
I want to echo you especially on what you said in the last paragraph regarding the most difficult challenges to be faced by Harris as the new president. While the US still remains at the top, its global power is diminishing and in the increasingly multipolar world (or at least moving in that direction) the US foreign policy needs to change.
i concur. another great post. all kinds of trenchant observations on the world’s viper nest. what are the roots of Iran’s enmity for Israel. i know so little about the region, but of all the countries that would like to see Israel erased from the map, why do they seem the most determined?
Another solid post Ethan. I've always found it perplexing how long-lasting Iraq Study Group and Obama's thinking (apparently heavily influenced by the former) about the Islamic Republic of Iran has been in Democrat foreign policy circles despite the consistent evidence to the contrary. The assumption that a US pullback from Iraq and the region was going to make Iran an actor interested in stability seems like a counter-delusion to the delusion the 2003 Iraq War.
Not is america politically disfunctional, but in many other ways even worse: gun safety, lack of equal rights, medical, in America is lifespan the lowest compared to other countries, healthcare is the worse etc, etc.
“Some of the most difficult challenges a President Harris would face will be how to reverse pervasive risk aversion; rebuild American professional foreign policy and national security bureaucracies after decades of erosion and politicization, and re-articulate what America stands for, at home and abroad.”
As usual, you cut to the heart of the situation, Ethan. Really excellent post!