Quote of the Week:

"Reckless, outrageous, and undignified behavior has become excused and countenanced as 'telling it like it is,' when it is actually just reckless, outrageous, and undignified."

-- Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ), in a Tuesday statement on the Senate floor.

"'I Will Not Be Complicit.' Jeff Flake's Retirement Speech, Annotated" Amber Phillips -- The Washington Post, October 24, 2017

"Permanent Warfare as Normality" Paul Pillar -- The National Interest, October 20, 2017

"An Accident Waiting to Happen: Trump, Putin, and the U.S.-Russia Relationship" Bobo Lo -- Lowy Institute, October 25, 2017

"A Space Policy for the Trump Administration" Jerry Hendrix and Adam Routh -- Center for a New American Security, October 23, 2017

"'America First' Is a Losing Strategy on Trade" Mireya Solis -- Brookings Institution, October 24, 2017

"Japan's Ruling Coalition Retains a Supermajority in Snap Election" -- The Economist, October 23, 2017

"Abe After the Election: What Comes Next?" Daniel Sneider -- Asia Times, October 25, 2017

"Make Japan Great Again: Abe's Landslide Is a Victory for Militant Nationalism in the Trump Age" Alexander Griffing -- Haaretz, October 24, 2017

"The Bright Side of Japan's Bleak Election" Tobias Harris -- New Republic, October 25, 2017

"Kenya's Electoral Impasse " Nic Cheeseman; Gabrielle Lynch; Justin Willis -- Foreign Affairs, October 25, 2017

"Kenya Election: From 'Fair and Peaceful' to Democratic Crisis" Bruce Konviser -- Deutsche Welle, October 25, 2017

"Kenya Opposition Leader Urges Vote Boycott, Civil Disobedience" George Obulutsa and Katharine Houreld -- Reuters, October 25, 2017

"Kenyan Election Rerun to Go Ahead Despite Effort to Block It" Matina Stevis-Gridneff -- The Wall Street Journal, October 25, 2017

"We Need a Strategy for the Middle East" John McCain -- The New York Times, October 24, 2017

"What the End of ISIS Means" Stephen M. Walt -- Foreign Policy, October 23, 2017

"Iraq May Have just Turned the Corner from Chaos to Stability" Michael Rubin -- Washington Examiner, October 24, 2017