Ted Galen Carpenter
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How Iran Would Battle the U.S. In a War (It Would Be Bloody) | Cato ...
How Iran Would Battle the U.S. In a War (It Would Be Bloody). By Ted Galen Carpenter. This article appeared on National Interest (Online) on June 30, 2019.
Books by Ted Galen Carpenter
“NATO: Dangerous Dinosaur” (2019)
In NATO: The Dangerous Dinosaur, Ted Galen Carpenter outlines how NATO in its current form has outlived its purpose, and burden sharing is only part of the problem. Continuing to expand NATO eastward, encroaching on Russia, will only endanger the alliance.
“Gullible Superpower: U.S. Support for Bogus Foreign Democratic Movements” (2019)
Unlike recent policymakers and opinion-shapers, the first few generations of American leaders made a sharp distinction between the legitimate interests of the republic and foreign causes that purported to seek the overthrow of tyrannical rule and establish democratic systems based on respect for fundamental rights. No one made that distinction more emphatically than Secretary of State John Quincy Adams. In a celebrated Fourth of July address, Adams implicitly rebuked growing calls for Washington to support republican independence movements in places ranging from Greece to Latin America.
“The Ties That Blind: How the U.S.-Saudi Alliance Damages Liberty and Security” (2018)
The murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has cast a deep shadow over Washington's relationship with Saudi Arabia. The ever-changing story about how Khashoggi died undermines the Saudi government's already weak credibility and is illustrative of its extensive record of humans-rights abuses and outright war crimes. Washington's solicitous, even enabling, posture toward Saudi Arabia cannot disguise the fact that the Kingdom has never been a reliable U.S. ally. Unfortunately, U.S. leaders are far too willing to make moral compromises when security threats are modest. Abandoning essential moral standards and values for the defense of lesser interests is never justified. Yet that is precisely what that U.S. has done with Saudi Arabia for decades. First published as a key section Perilous Partners, which Ted Galen Carpenter co-authored several years ago, The Ties That Blind documents the many instances in which U.S. and Saudi interests diverged. Combined with the recent cases covered in the new material Carpenter has added to this book, the case for terminating the toxic U.S.-Saudi alliance, indefensible on both strategic and moral grounds, becomes more clear and urgent than ever before.
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