Adam Smith condemned Trump’s corruption, but as Smith’s own campaign warchest demonstrates, much of ‘national security’ funding has an afterlife propping up the campaigns of members of Congress who are friendly to the industry. The ranking Democrats’ impeachment inquiry was never about corruption per se, but rather about which forms of corruption ‘national security’ permits.
Read MoreIsrael receives more aid every three years than Palestine has in seven decades. This aid disparity is not the only issue; in reality, much of U.S. support to Palestine is — in effect — support to Israel. Crucially, U.S. policies that favor Israel and deprive Palestinians of basic rights the means of self-determination reflect a bipartisan consensus that long predates Trump.
Read MoreThere is good reason to dwell on the deliberate cruelty of foreign policy in the era of Trump. This would be a mistake. It is precisely the temptation to see these events as a historical discontinuity that must be resisted, lest we fail to understand the fact that in terms of substance, Trump’s approach to Palestine differs little from that of his predecessors in the White House and in Congress.
Read MoreThe military’s perverse obsession with preserving inter-military relationships at all costs has turned what the military construes as a source of leverage into a glaring liability. Leaning on these relations may be the only way to prevent U.S. allies from undermining Sudan’s uprising.
Read MoreAmericans are fed up with American foreign policy. CAP sees this as a marketing problem, showing once again we can’t count on the national security establishment to deliver progressive solutions.
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