Well at least it wasn’t like Vietnam, with the left-behind hanging off the helicopter skids. This time we left without…
Asia
Time to Solve the China-Taiwan Crisis
Suppose the Confederacy Had Fled to Cuba I know that’s a stretch of the imagination, but it’s very close to…
My Bone to Pick with Biden’s Secretary of Defense
Actually, I have several, but first a few words to set the confrontation on level ground. It was called Secretary…
The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend
According to Google, the first recorded instance for this phrasing comes from Gabriel Manigault, who in his 1884 Political Creed…
Stock Market Selloff—Not Coronavirus, But the Manufacturing Complex
Coronavirus looks to me like a trigger rather than a cause. Why would that be? For one, a market…
Stock-Market Optimism
Breathtaking news, Wall Street investors are breathless with optimism. The world is going to hell in a breathlessly accelerated…
Tariffs Are Not Advanced by Breaking All the China
Don’t confuse the headline with breaking the Chinese nation, I’m using the more common reference to bulls in china…
A Return to Tariffs in the United States Makes Sense
Tariffs are essentially a tax on imports or exports between nations. Their goal is to protect manufacturing and that’s more…
Time for another Nixon-Kissinger style trip to Beijing—this time to Moscow
In 1972, exactly 43 years and four months ago, newly elected President Richard Nixon and his National Security Advisor, Henry…
My Car Keys Are Not ‘Lost’ Either, but until I Locate Them I Can’t Drive the Car
Obama: U.S. security is still at stake AFGHAN WAR TO ESCALATE 30,000 more troops; pullout begins mid-2011 By Scott Wilson…