I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is a lawyer and former government official who served as Chief of Staff and national security adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney. He was a prominent voice on foreign policy and national security issues, and his contributions to The Weekly Standard covered Middle Eastern affairs, U.S.-Iran relations, and geopolitics in Asia. He was convicted in the CIA leak case in 2007 and later pardoned by President Trump in 2018.
Americans have debated whether the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) gives inspectors sufficient visibility into suspected, undisclosed Iranian activities, and whether, in the event of Iranian breach, sanctions will snapback. But there’s a bigger problem: the Joint Plan grants Iran and…
The perennial Middle East crisis known as Lebanon has entered a new phase with the fall of Sunni prime minister Saad Hariri’s government. The proximate cause of the government’s collapse was the withdrawal from Lebanon’s coalition Shiite and opposition ministers aligned with Hezbollah. They object…
The curious island of Japan has long fascinated the West: in peace and war; in novels, paintings, plays, and movies. Ian Littlewood, in The Idea of Japan: Western Images, Western Myths, sets out to expose our time-honored myths about that country, not because they are untrue, but because they…