With such powerful forces determined to use 9/11 as a justification to invade Iraq and topple Saddam Hussein for good, the American people really didn’t have a chance in proverbial hell to stop it. As Woodrow Wilson knew with the U.S. entry into WWI, the media must...
Jack Matlock on Escalating War: ‘It’s Hard To See How We Get Out of This’
Reprinted from Responsible Statecraft with permission.Jack Matlock Jr., who was a young U.S. foreign service officer stationed in Moscow during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and then ambassador there 20 years later under the Reagan Administration, joined a seasoned panel...
Chas Freeman on Nixon, China, and ‘The Week That Changed the World’
From The Quincy Institute/Responsible Statecraft: The tension and curiosity was palpable here in America when President Richard Nixon touched down in China with an entourage of government officials and press on February 21, 1972. The reason was clear: the country had...
Anatol Lieven: Freeze NATO Expansion Now or Risk War (VIDEO)
From Responsible Statecraft. The Russians want NATO to close its doors to Ukraine and all further expansion into Eastern Europe — this is the red line Moscow as declared. Quincy Institute senior fellow Anatol Lieven talks here about why the U.S. and NATO must decide...
Bi-Partisan Coalition Urges Biden To Resist Calls for Military Action Against Russia
Reprinted from Responsible Statecraft (Quincy Institute) with permission.A coalition of both conservative and progressive foreign policy organizations have delivered a letter to the White House, asking the president to pursue a broad diplomatic path with the Russians...
Loosened Rules on Drone Strikes Recall Vietnam ‘Body Counts’ (video)
From Responsible Statecraft: Investigative journalist, author, and Iraq veteran Jack Murphy sat down with the Quincy Institute’s Adam Weinstein to talk about U.S. drone strikes in Afghanistan, and how loosened rules of engagement led to an accelerated number of...
RIP: Mark Perry, an Extraordinary Journalist in Extraordinary Times
Our colleague and friend Mark Perry passed away today after a battle with lung cancer, his son Cal Perry announced on Twitter earlier this morning. It is devastating news to so many because Perry had been a staple in Washington foreign policy/military journalism and...
Panel: What’s a State-Sponsored Assassination Between Friends? Reckoning With the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi (video)
On the eve of the second anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, QI and Showtime Documentary Films hosted a discussion about the implications of the assassination for U.S.-Saudi relations past, present, and future. The discussion also offered a sneak peak at...
Debate ‘Train Wreck’ Shows US in No Position To Lecture the World
Reprinted from Responsible Statecraft (Quincy Institute) with permission.It was called ‘“the worst debate in American history” by more than one pundit and cable news anchor.The graphic descriptions of Tuesday night’s presidential debate between incumbent Donald Trump...
10 Foreign Policy Questions That Should Be Asked at the Presidential Debate (But Probably Won’t)
Reprinted from Responsible Statecraft (Quincy Institute) with permission.Tuesday’s highly anticipated debate between President Trump and Democratic challenger Vice President Joe Biden is expected to delve into several broad topics critical to today’s...


