What is it with small countries egging large countries on toward war? Israel in the Middle East Ukraine between the…
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Blaming Biden for Bush Cheney and Rumsfeld’s War Crimes
There hasn’t been much statesmanship on display in American politics for half a century. Some, but not a lot. John…
U.S. Takes Heat after Leaving Afghanistan
No one loved us while we were there (for two decades), but they simply cannot stand us leaving. Mission-creep. Would…
Power Is as Much Consented to as Claimed
That’s a brilliant line from a review of Christopher Clark’s Prisoners of Time. It’s a historic fact, as proven by…
Leaving Afghanistan Like a Thief in the Night
Well at least it wasn’t like Vietnam, with the left-behind hanging off the helicopter skids. This time we left without…
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…