The 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks is an excellent time to reflect on the state of the country. When those hijacked planes crashed into the Twin Towers in New York City, our eyes were involuntarily opened to the…
“Mission accomplished.” “The greatest evacuation in human history.” “We did what we came to do.” Our nation’s longest war, a war my generation grew up with, is “over” according to President Joe Biden almost 20 years after it began. Twenty…
How long would it take a Taliban occupying force here to compel Americans to face Mecca five times a day in prayer, give up bacon and beer, and embrace the more exotic practices of female genital mutilation, honor killings, and…
America’s longest war is coming to an end. As an active-duty officer, it has been very depressing to watch how quickly Afghanistan has fallen. More than 2,300 military service members and approximately 3,900 U.S. contractors have lost their lives, with…
The 9/11 attacks gave us the heightened security theater now on display in all U.S. airports. Day after day for the last two decades, Transportation Security Administration agents have patted down travelers from teens to the elderly, looking for weapons…
Editor’s note: This column was originally published on April 20, 2021. President Biden’s recent decision to withdraw all remaining 2,500 American troops from Afghanistan by September 11 entails much more risk than reward. The reward is principally political: on September…
Washington — “Mommy, they’re taking it down,” a toddler excitedly calls to his parents on Saturday as they walk around the fenced-off perimeter of the Capitol Hill complex. Three workmen in front of him are disassembling the rolls of razor…
“I am asking for confidentiality. Feel free to pass this on. I was there.” So began Frank (not his real name), who contacted me shortly after arriving home from the craziness at the Capitol Building on January 6. He was…
On the 11th of September, Nobel laureate Paul Krugman saw fit, taking a merciful break from scrawling in the New York Times, to calculate that the death toll of the current pandemic is “equivalent to 60 9/11s.” This crude accounting…
