Foreign Policy

Turkey and Japan New Beginnings?
The shipwreck survivors returned home to the Sublime Porte aboard two small Japanese warships, the KongÅ and the Hiei. The Ottoman sultan decorated the Japanese sailors who had escorted them on the journey with medals of honor.

People-Driven Policy in the Middle East
A Middle East ruled illegitimately by the criminally violent will always produce security threats to Americans, especially if the U.S. government is seen in the region as consorting with the enemy.