Defeating ISIS isn’t enough: Trump urgently needs a new Syria policy By Anne Pierce Ph.D., Fox News In Syria, hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost, millions of people remain displaced and countless souls are physically and psychologically scarred. Throngs of children are without families or homes, entire villages and farming communities no longer exist, and cities are in ruins.  Fallout from the seismic Syrian civil war and upheaval besets the Middle East. Aggressor regimes and extremist groups have capitalized upon the chaos and despair.  It will be very difficult at this late juncture to get America’s Syria policy right, but the moral and strategic stakes are too high to keep getting it wrong. Instead of slouching toward a fatally flawed paradigm, the Trump administration should conduct an urgent policy review, such as it did for North Korea and Iran.  U.S. efforts in Syria are hampered by a narrow focus on defeating ISIS and corollary downplay...

Walid Phares: President Trump should support Iranians opposing their brutal government 10/19/2017 9:39:52 PM Walid Phares, Ph.D., a foreign policy adviser to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump Fox News, Oct. 18, 2017   - Now that President Trump has decertified the Iranian nuclear deal and asked Congress to decide if the U.S. should snap back economic sanctions on the Islamic Republic, he is faced with a critical decision on what future U.S. policy toward Iran should be. Following an administration review of U.S. policy toward Iran now underway, the president should make a commitment to show greater support for the Iranian people in their struggle for freedom against the brutal and oppressive extremist regime that governs their nation. The outlines of what future U.S. policy to Iran might look like point to positive and long overdue changes. The president’s speech before the  United Nations  General Assembly last month was one of se...

Walid Phares: President Trump should support Iranians opposing their brutal government 10/19/2017 9:39:52 PM Walid Phares, Ph.D., a foreign policy adviser to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump Fox News, Oct. 18, 2017  - Now that President Trump has decertified the Iranian nuclear deal and asked Congress to decide if the U.S. should snap back economic sanctions on the Islamic Republic, he is faced with a critical decision on what future U.S. policy toward Iran should be. Following an administration review of U.S. policy toward Iran now underway, the president should make a commitment to show greater support for the Iranian people in their struggle for freedom against the brutal and oppressive extremist regime that governs their nation. The outlines of what future U.S. policy to Iran might look like point to positive and long overdue changes. The president’s speech before the  United Nations  General Assembly last month was one of seve...