JD Vance compared his ambitions for a conservative takeover of America to U.S. policy in postwar Iraq. He wasn't wrong.

Alienating allies and partners that the U.S. desperately needs means that “America First” will be “America Alone.” ...

But as a new government takes shape in Damascus, Syrians and foreign observers alike worry about how inclusive, representative, and Islamist it may be. The country’s de facto leader, Ahmed al-Shara, ...