I don't know if he went as far as withdrawal but he opposed the surge and argued for a narrower mission targeted on Al Qaeda. Other notable stances were opposing the intervention in Libya (right… (View Post)

In defence of both these people, it wouldn't have been particularly helpful to the old government trying (futilely, it turned out) to prevent the Taliban overrunning the country if they'd h… (View Post)

On the potential Chinese response I have no expertise on this in particular but if the point of the exercise is supposed to be to reunify the single country of China, it seems complicated to do it by… (View Post)

So at some point the FDA is going to get around to giving the vaccine formal approval. After that the vaccine makers will be allowed to advertise on TV, and one of them will presumably pay Trump to d… (View Post)

I guess the path of least resistance is just to use the average over a few years instead of doing the calculation once every year. That avoids an immediate bump while preserving the core policy direc… (View Post)