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Are the Forever Wars Really Ending? Sep. 15, 2020
"There is no... sound reason for the United States to continue sacrificing precious lives and treasu... Read More
Is This How Europe Ends? Mar. 10, 2020
"Fortress Europe is an illusion." So declares the Financial Times in the closing line of its Saturda... Read More
Thoughts on Traumatic Brain Injury Jan. 31, 2020
In October 2006, some 30 hours after departing Andrews Air Force Base in Washington, D.C., I stepped... Read More
Trump's In-Kind Contribution to Bernie Jan. 14, 2020
The directed killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, Iran's blood-soaked field marshal in the "forever war... Read More
Trump Responds to Iran's Act of War Jan. 10, 2020
In all the reportage and commentary on the killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, I haven't seen much men... Read More
Getting It Right in Iran Jan. 10, 2020
President Donald Trump got it right in his response to a flurry of missiles fired by Iran into a Ame... Read More
Joe Biden: A Flawed Foreign Policy Resume Jan. 08, 2020
Joe Biden is picking up speed in Iowa and New Hampshire polls as the clear Democratic primary front-... Read More
Who Decides Who Gets In? Jan. 08, 2020
My plan to "Keep America Great" is very simple: 1) Stop exporting American soldiers to countries tha... Read More
If Baghdad Wants Us Out, Let's Go! Jan. 07, 2020
Fifteen years after the U.S. invaded Iraq to turn Saddam Hussein's dictatorship into a beacon of dem... Read More
Iraqis Storm Our Embassy, and We're Still Failing in Iraq Jan. 02, 2020
It's a matter of official record that Afghanistan has been the longest war in American history, stil... Read More
Some Good Things Happened in the Decade That Is Now Ending Dec. 29, 2019
Ten years ago, America was in an awful way. It had been through a decade of terrorism, war and reces... Read More
In Afghanistan, Presidents Lied and Americans Died Dec. 15, 2019
The United States is the most powerful military power in the history of the world. Yet somehow we ca... Read More
Is it Jaw-Jaw or War With Iran? Dec. 10, 2019
"Jaw-jaw is better than war-war," is attributed, wrongly, say some historians, to Winston Churchill.... Read More
What's Behind Our World on Fire? Nov. 19, 2019
When the wildfires of California broke out across the Golden State, many were the causes given. Negl... Read More
Trump Right to Mark the Death of al-Baghdadi as a Victory Nov. 05, 2019
One mark of how far we have fallen into the politics of division is the blowback the White House has... Read More
Imperial Capital but America-First Nation Oct. 25, 2019
"Let someone else fight over this long blood-stained sand," said President Donald Trump in an impass... Read More
'Great and Unmatched Wisdom' Could Unleash Thousands of Islamic State Fighters Oct. 11, 2019
As if invoking the Great and Powerful Oz, President Donald Trump now asserts via Twitter that he is ... Read More
'Locked and Loaded' for War on Iran? Sep. 17, 2019
"Iran has launched an unprecedented attack on the world's energy supply," declared Secretary of Stat... Read More
Will Bibi's War Become America's War? Aug. 27, 2019
President Donald Trump, who canceled a missile strike on Iran, after the shoot-down of a U.S. Predat... Read More
Trump Chooses Loyalty Over Expertise for Advice on Intelligence Matters Jul. 31, 2019
It takes courage and conviction, backed by hard intelligence, to walk into the Oval Office and tell ... Read More
