“So picture a continuum of regime change. On one end, you get Venezuela, in which you decapitate the head of the regime, and then that’s it. . . . Go to the opposite end of the continuum, and you get the U.S. war in Iraq in 2003, completely changing and transforming the entire https://t.co/3o1ge63TqF -

“A pretty unstable and fragmented Iran can also be really problematic for U.S. national security interests, particularly around the region,” argues Mara E. Karlin, professor of practice at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies and visiting fellow at https://t.co/Hg7VuypfYK -

“Roosevelt was, above all, a political animal. . . . He really measured his actions to a great degree in terms of how it would affect him politically. And I think . . . he was at his weakest when things were really heating up in Europe,” says Lynne Olson, author of Those Angry https://t.co/abJQclDZwv -

On this day in 1978 he U.S. Senate approved the first of two treaties that would ultimately transfer control of the Panama Canal to Panama. "The decision to hand over control of the canal resolved a long-standing and growing irritant in U.S. relations with Latin America that -