Originally posted May 13, 2015. Professionalsoldiers.com tells readers, “ Throughout history, disarming the populace has always preceded tyrants’ accession. Hitler, Stalin and Mao all disarmed their citizens prior to installing their murderous regimes…When our founding fathers ensured that the 2nd Amendment was made a part of our Constitution, they were not just wasting ink. They […]
Kill the Second Amendment!
Originally posted July 27, 2014. That is exactly what retired Supreme Court Justice Stevens proposes. Notwithstanding that there is zero chance an amendment to kill American gun rights would pass, lunatic proposals such as the current one by Stevens, are the province of the Marxist/Progressive/left movement . Here is the elephant in the room for […]
Conflicts the U.S. Should Avoid
The American Conservative’s Daniel Larison writes that the fact the U.S cannot support any of the major groups vying for control of Damascus should make it clear that the U.S. has no business being involved in the conflict at all. Hawks just wanted to inflict a loss on Iran. Now fighting ISIS has taken priority, but […]
Governing Elite Deeply and Savagely Hated?
Originally posted July 27, 2015. Former CIA bin Laden unit chief Michael Scheuer wonders, “if there is a possibility the America’s governing elite does not know how deeply and savagely it is hated by the citizenry?” Mike offers a dozen items to consider in support of his question, concluding with (#12): “The elite’s relentless effort […]
Putin Indicts U.S. Foreign Policy
Vladimir Putin took to the floor of the U.N. for an address on a U.S. foreign policy that, as Pat Buchanan notes, “has produced a series of disasters in the Middle East that we did not need the Russian leader to describe for us.” From Putin: “An aggressive foreign interference has resulted in a brazen […]
Vladimir Putin on Charlie Rose’s “60 Minutes”
The American Conservative outlines for readers that Putin referred refreshingly during an interview with Charlie Rose to terms of Realpolitik, such as “national interest.” Also noted: “There was little if any of the Wilsonian globaloney favored by members of our foreign policy establishment—Democrats and Republicans alike—who seem to share the belief that the only thing missing […]
The Case For Realism & Restraint
The American Conservative will offer a summit on an alternative foreign policy view, favoring realism and restraint, as opposed to the big-government, neocon model currently popular in Washington. The AC describes the event here: “Conservative realism” has emerged as the crucial question of Republican foreign policy. Mainstream conservatives and policymakers on the right are rejecting […]
Here’s a Real Bad Idea
In Foreign Policy, James Stavridis outlines his support for a formal alliance with Israel. He writes: There is certainly broad consensus on the need to assuage Israeli insecurities. A wide variety of observers have opined on the need to do so, including most recently Michèle Flournoy and Richard Fontaine, both well-regarded defense analysts at the […]
No Formal Alliance With Israel
The American Conservative’s Daniel Larison explains to readers, “The U.S.- Israel relationship is already a net liability for America.” Larison writes: There are a few obvious reasons why the U.S. shouldn’t do this. First, the U.S. already has far too many formal security commitments around the world, and adding another would needlessly add to U.S. […]
Scowcroft Was Right—Bush Was Dead Wrong
Brent Scowcroft warned that if the United States went into Iraq, it would turn the Middle East into a caldron. Scowcroft conceded that Saddam might well be a despot and untrustworthy, but he noted that it wasn’t because of terrorism that the Iraqi leader was a problem. He predicted that if the United States went […]
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