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The Dumbest Fallacy in Foreign Policy Dec. 18, 2024
Last week, after 50 years of tyranny and repression, the government of Bashar Assad fell in Syria. I... Read More
Who Will Protect Syrian Christians? Dec. 11, 2024
It started with a suicide bomber. On Sept. 4, 2013, a terrorist group launched an attack on a profou... Read More
Will Post-Assad Syria Acquire a Neo-Ottoman Turkish Yoke? Dec. 11, 2024
In late summer 2012, Syrian Prime Minister Riyad Hijab denounced his boss, dictator Bashar al-Assad,... Read More
First Anniversary of Ghastly Oct. 7 Attacks on Israel Is a Time To Reflect -- and To Make Amends Oct. 03, 2024
SAN DIEGO — And so we arrive at the first anniversary of the hideous Oct. 7, 2023, attacks by ... Read More
American Hubris Dec. 07, 2023
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind." — Hosea 8:7 The debacle of th... Read More
Syria and the First Day of School Sep. 01, 2023
As sure as E. Jean Carroll was just another old lady out buying underwear, some days I feel pretty s... Read More
The Arab World's Conspiracy of Dictators Helps Mask Egregious Rights Abuses May. 26, 2023
What happens way over in the Arab world almost always has an impact here in tangible ways, whether i... Read More
Let Them In Mar. 30, 2022
Millions flee Ukraine. Where will they go? Some want to come to America. But doing that legally is h... Read More
More Presidential Killings Jan. 27, 2022
Secretly and quietly, the Biden administration has continued to use the killing machine crafted by P... Read More
Were the Wars Wise? Were They Worth It? Jun. 01, 2021
Through the long Memorial Day weekend, anyone who read the newspapers or watched television could no... Read More
Insurrection and Revolution Dec. 18, 2020
Here's how you think the revolution is going to work if you're a nut job of the left or the right. T... Read More
Joe Biden Will Be a Republican President Oct. 03, 2020
Past performance is no guarantee of future returns, but there are few more reliable ways to predict ... Read More
History Keeps Proving John Kerry Wrong Aug. 21, 2020
It took approximately 20 seconds for former Secretary of State John Kerry to drop the first flagrant... Read More
On Foreign Policy, Bernie Sanders Shines Feb. 13, 2020
Bernie Sanders is a strident ideologue with immovable convictions that defy conventional Democratic ... Read More
Fort Bragg Answers a 911 Call Again Jan. 09, 2020
When the president calls 911, the phone rings at Fort Bragg. It is an expression some version of whi... 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
Trump's Canny Diplomatic and Psychological Feints on the International Stage Dec. 04, 2019
Three years ago, Donald Trump began a rhetorical offensive targeting the governments of NATO nations... 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
An 'Austere Religious Scholar' Exemplifies Fake News Nov. 01, 2019
This week's death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi marked a monumental victory for mankind. We el... Read More
