Foreign Policy
Executive Discretion and the Iran Deal
At The Cipher Brief, Robert Eatinger: Can Trump Legally Withdraw from the Iran Deal? Short answer: yes. On the constitutional aspects: The JCPOA [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, i.e., the Iran deal] cannot constitute a treaty of the United States because it has...Foreign Policy Wisdom from a Foreign-Born Uber Driver
My Armenian Uber driver today – who only spoke passable English – went into a tirade about U.S. foreign policy since the 1950’s. He told me about the Shah of Iran, the Iraq/Iran war, Libya, funding the Taliban, and how all the destabilization has...
More Unconstitutional Military Intervention in Syria on the Way?
An early draft of an Executive Order Pres. Donald Trump will likely issue Jan. 26 features a provision that sets the stage for further unconstitutional military intervention in Syria. You will find this relatively short directive buried deep in the EO. Sec. 6....