Washington’s foreign policy establishment, essentially a bipartisan war party more interested in running the world than protecting the American people, is debating going to war — several times over. For instance, there’s Russia. Administration officials warn that Moscow might attack…
In a thought-provoking article in the National Interest, the Cato Institute’s Justin Logan contends that U.S. foreign policy is run by too many lawyers (full disclosure — I am a lawyer), and suggests that we’d have a better foreign policy if…
The ancient Greeks knew a thing or two about the cycle of regimes, which they postulated in anacyclosis. Simply put, weak men make hard times, hard times make strong men, strong men make good times, good times make weak men….
I’ve spent most of the past few weeks writing columns here at The American Spectator which are exercises in bomb-throwing at the various villains and dunces who populate our government at its highest levels. A few months back, I wrote…
As 2021 painfully revealed, the United States did not achieve its objective of establishing a durable, functioning government in Afghanistan friendly to our interests. Afghanistan is but the latest in a succession of post-World War II disasters where we failed…
My first real experience with government bureaucracy was 60 years ago when I joined the U.S. Army Reserve. We were hustled into a room at old Fort Dix to be given our uniforms. Half of the troops were handed decade-old…
Tim Young was exactly right on Saturday. Young, the excellent conservative comedian and political commentator, took to Twitter after viewing the insulting Shanksville speech former President George W. Bush dropped onto the heads of the American people, and dropped some…
Our ignominious defeat in the 20-year Afghan War is a lost battle in the “Great Game” of the 21st century. It is a struggle for control or denial of control of the vast geographical region of Central Asia. It resembles,…
Joe Biden declared the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan a success. That is somewhat akin to General Custer saying, “we have the Indians right where we want them.” Biden also said he accepts responsibility for what happened, but then he blamed…
