Nate Silver looks at Trump’s New York blowout of Ted Cruz and the road ahead to his needed 1237 delegates for a first ballot victory. It looks as though Trump will win every New York county except for Manhattan. More importantly, it looks as though he’ll eventually get something like 90 delegates of the 95 […]
Our Enemies Do Not Fear Us
Military historian and best-selling author Bing West offers readers a concise look at how America plans and fights wars. Bing concludes that we are performing poorly and offers several policy lessons that may be learned. On balance, he writes, the results in Iraq or Afghanistan were not worth the costs in American casualties, money, and […]
Trump Right about NATO
The Hill’s Bernie Quigley is on the money regarding NATO and Trumps view on NATO: Is anyone at all in the professional realm with him on this? Possibly Dwight Eisenhower would have been, who might be considered the greatest general since Julius Caesar. In 1951, he became the supreme commander of NATO, the intergovernmental military […]
Is Iraq Ready to Blow?
W. Patrick Lang, former U.S Military Intelligence officer, explains to readers: The post colonial construct called “Iraq” had been held together since its creation by force and coercion while it festered or fermented (take your pick) in its progress of evolving towards something like internal coherence. We destroyed that and believed that the artificialities of […]
Put America First
Pat Buchanan correctly advises Americans that we should put our country first and stay out of other people’s wars. Since the Iran nuclear treaty was signed, 98 percent of Iran’s enriched uranium has been shipped out of the country; no more 20 percent enriched uranium is being produced; the Arak reactor that could have produced […]
Halt Arms Sales to the Saudis
The American Conservative’s Daniel Larison outlines the Saudi/Yemen debacle: Senators Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Rand Paul (R-KY) said that in light of the civilian toll of the US-backed Saudi-led intervention in Yemen, the White House must ensure that American weapons are not being used in attacks on innocents. Murphy and Paul are to be commended […]
The Rise of Iceland’s Pirates
The National Interest asks if Iceland will fall to pirates: Probably one of the most interesting items to emerge from the Panama Papers is the rise of the Pirates. Sadly we are not talking about a gang of hirsute, garishly dressed and rum-soaked privateers looking for Spanish gold along the sun-dotted shipping lanes of the […]
Donald Trump, Most States, Delegates, Votes
Pat Buchanan asks “Will Trump Be Swindled in Cleveland Too? Mr. Buchanan looks at the positions of Sanders, Clinton, Trump and Cruz on the major issues and asks what happens next if in Philadelphia Sanders is sent packing, and in Cleveland Trump is robbed. Sanders, last week, was saying that what disqualifies Clinton as president is […]
“Why is U.S. Policy So Hostile to Russia?”
Author, turcopolier at Sic Semper Tyrannis questions the view of the Obama Defense Department, head by Ashton Carter, that the U.S. has five defense challenges. Of the so-called “Russian challenge,” he writes: Russia – What? Most of the people on SST believe that Russia is not engaged with its own forces in eastern Ukraine, Advisors […]
Hillary Clinton “What Difference Does It Make?”
Originally posted January 14, 2016. Newly Uncovered Benghazi Email Could Make a Difference A newly uncovered email from Jeremy Bash, former Defense Dept. Chief of Staff, is calling into question claims that no help was available to the victims of the Benghazi 9/11/12 terrorist attack. Special Forces in Croatia were apparently available and, according to […]
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