Bartle Bull is a writer, investor, and foreign affairs commentator who has reported extensively from the Middle East. He contributed articles to The Weekly Standard covering topics including the Iraq war, the Syrian conflict, and international aid policy. He is also known for his work as a foreign correspondent and his involvement in emerging market ventures.
I met Chris Gibson early in his first congressional race, at a campaign breakfast my family hosted at our house in upstate New York in April 2010. The sun was out that morning but winter was still in the air, as it often is there at that time of year. The fields and orchards of the Hudson River…
Never in American history has one party presented 15 serious candidates for a presidential nomination. The Republican party is not doing so today.
In early 1997, Dertu was a barely mapped speck on the parched landscape of the Somali nomads of Kenya’s North Eastern Province. The place’s misfortune was to possess just enough groundwater to attract a UNICEF borehole. By late 2009, Dertu was a picture-perfect dystopia of 5,000 souls. Its…
It was December 2006. Al Qaeda was near the peak of its influence in Iraq. The United States was widely considered to have been defeated in a humiliating war of choice in a country of extraordinary importance.
The moral and geostrategic arguments for a Western intervention in Syria speak for themselves. There is only good in helping a courageous majority free itself of a barbaric puppet of Iran and Russia who indiscriminately bombs his own civilians from land, air, and sea. Ethically, no outcome could be…