Tornado Alley (PROG)

[newmedman]

wow, that's an interesting perspective.

perhaps we could strap his ass to the first missile that he so badly wants to lob into Iran?

He could yell 'yippy ki yay' just before he strikes the first innocent bystanders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bret_Stephens

2010s[edit]
Stephens won the annual Pulitzer Prize for Commentary recognizing his 2012 columns for the Journal for "incisive columns on U.S. foreign policy and domestic politics, often enlivened by a contrarian twist."[11]

Stephens authored the book America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder, released in November 2014.[8] The book presents the case that the U.S. has been retreating from its role as the "world's policeman" in recent decades, which will lead to ever greater world problems.

Stephens has made several short videos for the conservative education website Prager University. His lessons focus on American foreign policy in the Middle East.[12]

In June 2017, Stephens became an on-air contributor to NBC News and MSNBC.[13] In September 2017, he received the Lowy Institute Media Award recognizing excellence in Australian foreign affairs journalism.[14]

Opinions[edit]
Foreign policy[edit]
Foreign policy was one of the central subjects of the columns for which Stephens won the Pulitzer Prize.[11] His foreign policy opinions have been characterized as neoconservative, part of a right-wing political movement associated with president George W. Bush that advocated the use of military force abroad, particularly in the Middle East, as a way of promoting democracy there.[15][16] Stephens was a "prominent voice" among the media advocates for the start of the 2003 Iraq War,[15] for instance writing in a 2002 column that, unless checked, Iraq was likely to become the first nuclear power in the Arab world.[17] Although the weapons of mass destruction used as a casus belli were never shown to exist, Stephens continued to insist as late as 2013 that the Bush administration had "solid evidence" for going to war.[17] Stephens has also argued strongly against the Iran nuclear deal and its preliminary agreements, arguing that they were a worse bargain even than the 1938 Munich Agreement with Nazi Germany.[17]

Stephens is a supporter of Israel.[18] Stephens has caused controversy for his remarks referring to an Egyptian athlete's refusal to shake his Israeli Olympic opponent's hand as "the disease of the Arab mind."[19][20] Stephens argues that this incident is indicative of the problem of anti-semitism in the Arab world.[21]