Israel’s Inalienable Rights

Self-evident Truths: For Barack Obama on the Eve of His Inauguration as President of the United States. "€¢ Israel has the inalienable right to pursue terrorists in the Gaza Strip and everywhere else they are hiding. "€¢ Israel has the inalienable right to attack houses, mosques, churches, ...

Time to End the Second Prohibition

Salvation was in the air. Repeal, also, was in the air. Two weeks before, the lame-duck Congress had turned a somersault and voted the amendment to the Constitution ending Prohibition. The wets were making merry with applejack, bathtub gin and prohibition hooch. "€œBeer by Easter,"€ they ...

Thank God We”€™re Still in Vietnam

"I remember as a young lieutenant hearing another senator say something like that back in 1972. What would have happened if President Nixon had bowed to the anti-war pressure and just pulled out of Vietnam? Where would we be then?"€, the soldier asked the congressman--who replied: "How many ...

A Patriotic Thought Experiment

"€œI am going to teach [them] to elect good men."€—President Woodrow Wilson, referring to his decision in 1914 to invade Mexico.  (Quoted in Peter Smith, Talons of the Eagle: Dynamics of U.S.-Latin American Relations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. page 51.) When the ...