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A Real Foreign Policy Debate

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A recent poll has revealed a schism within the GOP over foreign policy. In a Washington Times and JZ Analytics survey, 48 percent of Republicans said the United States should maintain a policy of intervening where its interests are challenged. But 46 percent disagreed, saying the country is “in a new global era” where it can no longer take such an active role. “That makes me say that the party is fundamentally fractured, and not only along the obvious lines of the social conservatives, the libertarian conservatives and the moderate conservatives,” said John Zogby, who conducted the poll. This fracture is best represented in the presidential campaign of Ron Paul, who has criticized U.S. foreign policy as being too bellicose and interventionist. He has called for bringing troops home from Afghanistan immediately and ending many of the military commitments the U.S. government has around the globe. Paul’s message of noninterventionism has gained traction in the polls and given voters something they have ...

The “Taliban Five” and the Forgotten Afghan Prisoners in Guantánamo

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In the last three months, much discussion has focused on the possibility that, as part of negotiations aimed at securing peace in Afghanistan, the United States would release five high-level Taliban prisoners in Guantánamo. Almost entirely forgotten are 12 other Afghan prisoners at Guantánamo who are mostly so insignificant that they have no one to lobby for them and are being rather disgracefully overlooked. The first information about discussions regarding the release of prisoners emerged in a Reuters article on December 19 last year that explained how secret negotiations between the U.S. government and the Taliban had begun ten months earlier. As part of the “accelerating, high-stakes diplomacy,” Reuters explained, the United States was “considering the transfer of an unspecified number of Taliban prisoners from the Guantánamo Bay military prison into Afghan government custody.” The day after, at a UN Security Council debate on Afghanistan, the Afghan deputy foreign minister, Jawed Ludin, “stressed the government’s determination to pursue reconciliation ...

The Murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer

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In early 1976 the National Enquirer published a story that shocked the elite political class in Washington, D.C. The story disclosed that a woman named Mary Pinchot Meyer, who was a divorced spouse of a high CIA official named Cord Meyer, had been engaged in a two-year sexual affair with President John F. Kennedy. By the time the article was published, JFK had been assassinated, and Mary Pinchot Meyer herself was dead, a victim of a murder that took place in Washington on October 12, 1964. The murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer is the subject of a fascinating and gripping new book by Peter Janney, who was childhood friends with Mary Meyer’s three sons and whose father himself was a high CIA official. Janney’s father and mother socialized in the 1950s with the Meyers and other high-level CIA officials. Janney’s book, Mary’s Mosaic, is one of those books that you just can’t put down once you start reading it. ...