I'm Kyle Spector, a policy advisor for national security issues at Third Way, a think tank in Washington DC. On this site, you'll find my thoughts and writing about national security policy and politics in the US and discussions of Middle East affairs, politics and policy.
Take a more belligerent posture on Iran and give up on Israeli-Palestinian peace.
Those are the two policy prescriptions Ephraim Karsh gives us in a New York Times op-ed today called “Muslims won’t play together.” I’m not going to take the time to argue with his policy prescriptions (I argued here for continued engagement with Iran, [...]
It’s a strange time for national security politics. Right now, US forces are waging a difficult counter-insurgency war in Afghanistan and a special forces war against Taliban leaders in Pakistan, American troops are drawing down from Iraq, Chinese hackers are launching cyber attacks in the US, and Iran is increasingly belligerent on the nuclear issue. [...]
There’s no denying it: Iran-related security challenges are extremely complex, and any progress will require time, patience, and determination. Anyone who argues that there is a quick fix to long-simmering disagreements with Iran is at best uninformed and at worst willfully foolish. The Obama administration seems to understand these fundamental facts and has continued with [...]
New in 2010 is a new site for KyleSpector.com. Although this site is technically a blog, I doubt I’ll be treating it as such. Instead, I’ve been needing an online repository for the work I do elsewhere, such as some of the writing I do on national security policy and politics at Third Way, and [...]
