Originally posted June 19, 2014. They’re back and growling. Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Robert Kagan, Bremer, Boot, Frum and Perle have resurfaced as profiled here by Jacob Heilbrunn. The neocon war dogs are often wrong but never in doubt, as I bet George Bush has come to understand. Don’t look now, but the latest installment […]
Pull U.S. Forces Out of Korea
North Korea is on its way to building a nuclear armed ballistic missile capable of reaching the United States. Pat Buchanan writes that Kim Jong Un and his regime are hell bent on developing such nuclear weapons capabilities because they feel it’s the only way to deter American influence on their country. Pat suggests that […]
Has Congress Forgotten Afghanistan?
Writing at The American Conservative, Andrew Bracevich wonders, where is Congress on Afghanistan? While the Trump administration can’t seem to make up its mind on a strategy, the branch of government actually tasked with declaring and funding wars is silent. He writes: the Afghanistan War (ostensibly part of a Global War on Terrorism) differs from […]
Scheuer Drops Truth about Trump Russia Story and BBC Cuts Him Off
Kennel of War Dogs
Former CIA bin Laden Unit chief Michael Scheuer spent his career figuring out how to protect America. Dr. Scheuer warns Americans, “We now have presidents who take the country to war on their whim; politicians who are legally bribed by “campaign contributions” from rich individuals, corporations, labor unions, and foreign lobbies and governments based on […]
War Dogs Reigniting Georgia/Russia Bonfire
The neocon war dogs, led unfortunately by Vice President Pence in this endeavor, are reigniting the long-simmering tension between NATO and Georgia (the country) on one side, and Russia on the other. Writing at The American Conservative, Daniel Larison tells readers Georgia will never join NATO, and that Vice President Pence implying it might is […]
War Dogs Could Learn from John Paul II
Peggy Noonan extols the virtues of Pope John Paul II. As Peggy explains, the Polish-born pope was committed to closer relations with Judaism, frowned on rapacious capitalism, and hated war, which John Paul claimed was “always a defeat for humanity.” Read here from Peggy Noonan, on the eve of Pope John Paul’s canonization, about his […]
Will Congress Ever Accept Responsibility for Never Ending War?
Writing at The American Conservative, William S. Smith trashes Paul Ryan and House leadership for refusing to debate the Authorization for Use of Military Force. Congress is avoiding any responsibility for the never ending war in Afghanistan. Smith writes: Last month, Fox News host Tucker Carlson engaged in a raucous debate on air with foreign-policy analyst Max […]
Does Congress Know Anything About Foreign Policy?
As America remains stranded in various never ending wars around the world, Philip Giraldi, a former CIA officer and executive director of the Council for the National Interest, wonders if Congress knows enough to pilot the country’s foreign policy. He writes at The American Conservative: A congressman once admitted to me that he and his […]
Is the America First Coalition Breaking Apart?
Are Neocon advisers and cabinet members taking over the Trump foreign policy agenda? After the Trump campaign prevented neocons from making the arming of Ukraine a plank in the GOP platform, bureaucrats and long-time Washington hands are slowly pushing for just that course of action. Will the Trump administration be run on America first principles, […]
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