Trump—Blundering into European Truths Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller.com) 5 June 2017 President Trump’s ignorant, oafish and crude foreign policy style rivets our attention, arouses our indignation. But the drama of the diplomatic mayhem he wreaks while traveling abroad also distracts from recognizing more serious underlying problems of US policy— deep negative trends that predate Trump. […]
Destroying Turkey’s Promise Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller.com) 9 May 2017 Nearly all the indicators coming out of Turkey continue to be bad—for Turkey and for nearly everybody else. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan seems to be the only one profiting from the ongoing dark course of events. Taking advantage of an unexplored and murky coup attempt […]
“American War”— An Apocalyptic Novel of Our Times Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller.com) 17 April 2017 It’s hard these days to avoid glimmers of an apocalyptic future, domestic and international, breaking into our daily consciousness. President Trump represents its most obvious face today, but its roots go back at least to a blinkered American triumphalism emerging […]
Graham E. Fuller, ContributorFormer Vice Chairman of the CIA’s National Intelligence Council Assad Is A Monster But If Trump Overthrows Him, Syria Will Likely Be Run By Terrorists If the U.S. topples Assad, it’ll create a power vacuum for warring extremists. 04/11/2017 09:52 am ET SANA SANA / REUTERSAssad during an interview with a Croatian […]
Forget Liberalism, Let’s Redefine Conservatism Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller.com) 10 March 2017 What is it about the US that makes it virtually the only country in the world where a political Left scarcely exists? We have a center Right—the Democratic Party. And we have a far Right—the Republican Party. In fact, just invoking the L-word […]
Trump is Right on Palestine: Beyond the “Two-State Solution” Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller.com) 20 February 2017 Just because Trump said it doesn’t mean it has to be wrong. During the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to Washington, President Trump publicly stated he is not necessarily wedded to a “two-state solution” in Palestine. He is […]
Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller@aol.com) 20 January 2017 With the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States, it’s hard to know where first to focus attention. Rage and righteous indignation on all sides are mounting. There is more than enough blame to go around for how the US got itself into […]
Trump-Putin Frenzy Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller.com) 19 December 2016 I cannot recall a period in which the US public debate across the media has reached such implacably partisan and toxic proportions. The issues are indeed important—particularly the specific case of Russian involvement in helping make public the activities of the Democratic National Committee—information that was strongly […]
The Never-Ending Extravaganza Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller.com) 12 December 2012 It had been an exhausting, interminable 18-20 months of presidential campaigning during which much of the business of thoughtful American governance had to yield space to the riveting follies of politics. Yet most other countries in the world, not locked into dictators or kings for […]
Does Qatar Really Threaten the Gulf?
June 14, 2017 by Graham E. Fuller • Blog • Tags: Islamism, Muslim Brotherhood, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, terrorism, Turkey, UAE •
Does Qatar Really Threaten the Gulf? Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller.com) 13 June 2017 The tiny Gulf state of Qatar is today under harsh siege from nearly everybody in the Middle East, and portrayed as a “supporter of terrorism.” The US has bought into the mantra. What’s really going on here? Back in the 1990s the […]
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