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The big issue here is not about troop numbers, rules of engagement, or timetables, but about the failed strategy of nation-building in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Hoshang Hashimi)
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Will the US make the same mistakes again in Afghanistan?

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Tillerson's speech last week was lambasted as both woefully insufficient and dangerously shortsighted. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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In defense of Rex Tillerson against the foreign policy establishment

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Emmanuel Macron created his own party, built membership and competed in a presidential contest with multiple candidates.
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Macron’s win in French election is still a defeat for the political establishment

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Defense hawks, establishment types, realists, non-interventionists, and deficit hawks disagree on pretty much everything, but burden sharing isn't one of them. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
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Sharing the burden of defense spending is a win-win

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Iran, a country surrounded by hostile neighbors, is wholly invested in ensuring its proxies in the Arab world are up and running. The U.S. and its Arab allies are devoting military and intelligence resources to weakening those same proxies. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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Trump must learn the art of the Iran deal

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It's not about regime change, it's not about human rights, Tillerson says, but about one thing and one thing only: denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Is the Trump administration winging it on North Korea and Kim Jong-un?

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The back-and-forth rhetoric between U.S. and North Korean officials has escalated to such a level that commentators are now openly speculating that the U.S. military is preparing for an operation similar to the attack on a Syrian government airfield earlier this month. (KRT via AP Video)
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Trump needs to know these 3 things about North Korea

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The Trump administration appears to believe the entire Islamic State problem can be swept away simply by bombing enough positions, taking enough territory, and attacking enough of the organization's revenue sources. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Does Trump think any brewing crisis in the Middle East is too complicated for a military solution?

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President Trump, like so many others, was clearly shaken by the pictures of dead children, ghostly white, having died at the hands of poisonous gas delivered from their own government. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Do Trump or the White House know what their own policy on Syria is?

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If senators want to dodge the bullet, they need to act now and think outside-the-box. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer should consider these three compromises before triggering the nuclear option on Neil Gorsuch

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