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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
Greenland: Trump's MAGA Idea! Aug. 23, 2019
To those of us of who learned our U.S. history from texts in the 1940s and '50s, President Donald Tr... Read More
When, If Ever, Can We Lay This Burden Down? Aug. 20, 2019
Friday, President Donald Trump met in New Jersey with his national security advisers and envoy Zalma... Read More
Trump Is Losing His Trade War with China Aug. 11, 2019
In the 1973 film, "The Sting," the character played by Robert Redford sizes up an enemy and says, "H... Read More
Build Those Walls! Aug. 05, 2019
The city where I live, an undistinguished place in Massachusetts, is getting ready to build a replic... Read More
Is a New US Mideast War Inevitable? Jul. 19, 2019
In October 1950, as U.S. forces were reeling from hordes of Chinese troops who had intervened massiv... Read More
Spreading PTSD Awareness Jun. 25, 2019
Dear Annie: I was an army medic who served two deployments in Iraq and saw more than two years' wort... Read More
Trump Edges Closer to War With Iran -- For All the Wrong Reasons Jun. 24, 2019
Some wars are necessary and unavoidable. A U.S. war against Iran doesn't even remotely qualify as a ... Read More
Trump's Clueless Iran Policy Blunders Toward War Jun. 20, 2019
The Trump administration's unbending policy toward Iran was supposed to force the foe into submissio... Read More
Attention Media Hysterics: Iran's Dictatorship Declared War on America 40 Years Ago Jun. 19, 2019
Media hysterics take note. Honest commentary on the Trump administration's 2019 diplomatic, economic... Read More
War With Iran Would Become 'Trump's War' Jun. 18, 2019
President Donald Trump cannot want war with Iran. Such a war, no matter how long, would be fought i... Read More
Do Trump's Hawks Speak for Trump? Jun. 04, 2019
For a president who won his office by denouncing the Middle East wars into which George W. Bush and ... Read More
Trump Courts War with Iran May. 23, 2019
Presidents have always had to deal with unforeseen foreign crises that erupt out of nowhere. For Bil... Read More
Iran's Proxy Armies Become a Regime Liability May. 22, 2019
Mark down May 2019 as the month Iran's war-by-proxy-forces racket became an undeniable problem for T... Read More
Who Wants This War with Iran? May. 17, 2019
Speaking on state TV of the prospect of a war in the Gulf, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei ... Read More
Is Bolton Steering Trump Into War with Iran? May. 07, 2019
Last week, it was Venezuela in America's gun sights. "While a peaceful solution is desirable, milit... Read More
Short Takes on Territorial Trivialities and Nursing No-Nos May. 06, 2019
Don't Sweat the Trivial Stuff Remember the war in Afghanistan? That is, the longest war in U.S. hist... Read More
The Secret Campaign for 2020: Where the Democratic Candidates Stand on Foreign Policy May. 03, 2019
Americans vote their pocketbooks. It's the economy, stupid. Absent a war or recent terrorist attack,... Read More
Media Matters' Fake-News Pro-Slavery Headline Apr. 25, 2019
In journalism, a "lede" is the introductory section of a news story, intended to entice the reader i... Read More
Notre Dame: An Omen Apr. 16, 2019
The symbolism of the burning of Notre Dame Cathedral, the most renowned building in Western civiliza... Read More
