Roger Kaplan
“They had to shoot back.” Laconically, the Interior Ministry reported why the life of Cheriff Chekatt, 29, ended Tuesday night…
At The American Spectator, we always agreed that it was quite fair and true to admonish our neighbors (and now…
The first historical reference that occurred to us at TAS, when reading of French president Emmanuel Macron huddling in the…
Twenty thousand berserk fans watched the starting Bleus doubles squad hold off a tenacious Croatian comeback on Saturday to win a…
It was perfectly stupid of French President Emmanuel Macron to say nice things about Marshall Philippe Pétain as commemorative ceremonies…
In early 1971, General Creighton Abrams, the head of MACV (U.S. military command in South Vietnam), ordered the interdiction of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, the network of roads and warehouses that ran through Laos and Cambodia practically to within an artillery shot of Saigon. The trail was used by the North Vietnamese to supply their armies and the Viet Cong (southern Communist led guerrillas). The latter were much reduced in numbers and effectiveness after frustrating years of efforts by the U.S. and South Vietnamese leaderships to devise a winning strategy.
In general, the idea of killing two birds with one stone is best eschewed; it seldom works. It is better…
Charles Aznavour gave his all to French literature, and it was a good thing he lived to a great old…
Conservatives of a certain age may recall a quip from the days in the wilderness, “When you see two pols…
