Switzerland’s Immigration Vote, the EU and the American Federal Government
The Swiss voted to reduce immigration Sunday. They are not members of the EU, but have a “Special Relationship.” Their EU self-appointed overseers did not like it and are expressing their disdain for...
View ArticleHandling Pre-Modern Sectarian Islam & the GWOT
6/17/2014 Grasswire (twitter news service) reporting that a new Iraqi military battalion named “Sons of Mosul” has been formed to fight ISIS. Takeaway for Western Leaders: Muslims love killing each...
View ArticleIraq: Take it or Leave it
Too many people think stuff is more complex than it is. This allows them the conceit that only serious, detailed and “nuanced” approaches can be undertaken. Usually THEIR serious, detailed and...
View ArticleGreat Powers and Civilization
Great Powers are those nations that throughout history have shown themselves both able and willing to order the population of the globe by slicing and dicing territory and nations to their desired...
View ArticleISIS and Islam: The Threat and The Future
Western governments see in ISIS what it is not: ISIS is not a bunch of guys at the bottom of the economic ladder revolting against capitalism or colonial imperialism. ISIS is not a cohort of men...
View ArticleKilling Christianity
Muslims are killing Christians in Iraq (… and Mali, Somalia, Kenya, Afghanistan, Thailand, Philippines…), taking over monasteries, and forcing Christians to “convert, pay tax or die.” This is exactly...
View ArticleArabs, Islam, Terrorism, the Future
Why are Arabs so angry that they kill all outside their tribe? Why has this terror risen as it has over the past few decades? The answers are not that hard. Arab countries have the highest rates of...
View ArticleThe West’s Greatest Moral Failure
Why has the West advanced while islam has, at best, remained static as a culture and society since its inception in the Dark Ages? (Yes, islam rose for centuries and gave the world algebra, and...
View ArticleThe Meaning of Ukraine
Putin is gobbling Ukraine. The non-American West is wringing its hands. The vacationing American president isn’t even doing that; he’s at the beach. In the 1994 Budapest Agreement, Ukraine agreed to...
View ArticleWars, Costs and Weapons
The generally accepted financial cost to the world of the Gulf War (Kuwait) was $80B, of which $61.1B was America’s cost. The goal of the Kuwait action was to prove the sanctity of borders. This was –...
View ArticleCIA, Torture and America
I’ve been on the front lines of those ridiculing the idea that torture doesn’t work (really? How’d we find bin ladin?), saying that I would do just about anything were the lives of my family – or the...
View ArticleCivilized World Needs a new Vocabulary for War
For millennia “war” has meant massed armies moving to and through opposition terrain to kill enemies, occupy territory, overthrow governments and create new strategic reality. The nation-state world...
View ArticleHearts & Minds, Science & Terrorism
In an important and fascinating column, “Are We Becoming Morally Smarter? The connection between increasing IQs, decreasing violence and economic liberalism,” the writer pulls from several longitudinal...
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What is Obama Doing with Iran?
Take a look at this picture: What does it show you? Nothing? OK – what does it tell you? Now, look at that picture again, this time paying attention to the countries Obama either has attacked or in...
View ArticleThe Dangerous World Obama is Intentionally Creating
I hope that everyone understands that Obama – intentionally – is creating a nuclear nightmare in the Middle East and South Asia, and that the only way out will be a nuclear attack on at least one...
View ArticleObama’s Gathering Storm
A friend recently wrote to me that the world today reminds her of the “Gathering Storm,” referring to Churchill’s book of that name documenting the lead-up to WW2 in Europe (which, if you have not yet...
View ArticleThe Holocaust was Not Just About Scale
Suppose for a moment that you live in a small neighborhood of five families. Each family has four members – Mom, Dad, a teenage daughter and a son under the age of five. Suppose further that one family...
View ArticleThe American Middle Class Needs to Suck It Up
I’ve often held that Vietnam is THE defining moment in our post-war history. I bring it up here only to make a point. I know people are bored with it, and that’s unfortunate, for its lessons still need...
View ArticleGOP: Cold War Not Over
For unknown reasons the GOP is unable to accept that the Cold War ended a quarter-century ago. Every candidate – with the exception of Rand Paul – is saying “we need a stronger military.” Carly even...
View ArticleKissinger: Cold War Not Over
Kissinger rears his Cold War head and tells us how to get “out “ of the Middle East. Right. And how “we” need to reconstruct the Middle East. It was our help “reconstructing” it after the fall of the...
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