Playing the China Card

Recently, China overtook Germany as the world’s largest exporter. And just the other day, China was calculated to have overtaken Japan as the second largest economy in the ...

Oh! What a Lovely Afghan War

A more useless and unnecessary thing than an expedition into this country could not be imagined… These are words lifted from the diary of Brigadier-General Henry Brooke ...

War, Women, and the Taliban

It's only dire necessity That's taking me to war; And if I were a moneyed man I wouldn"€™t go for sure. -Miguel de Cervantes de Saavedra, The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de ...

Yankee Utopians in a Chinese Century

For those who can yet recall the backyard blast furnaces of Mao’s China in the 1950s and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution to re-instill peasant values in the 1970s, ...

Saddam’s Most Dangerous Legacy

While Saddam Hussein was still ruling Iraq, he went to a village to award a new Kalashnikov rifle to a young boy. The boy had come to the tyrant's attention after reporting the ...

Afghan Mine Field

When you"€™re losing bad on Afghanistan's plains And the critics dare to question your gains Just roll to your geology and use your brains And go to your gold like I told ...

Will Greece Rise from the Dust?

Gallivanting around the globe is usually not advisable for political leaders in the midst of sweeping domestic changes, possible bankruptcy and public protests. Unless that is, ...

Is the War Coming Home?

Faisal Shahzad sought to massacre scores of fellow Americans in Times Square with a bomb made of M-88 firecrackers, non-explosive fertilizer, gasoline and alarm clocks. Umar ...

The Fake Iranian Crisis

Let’s see. We have an oil gusher out of control in the Gulf of Mexico with no end in sight, threatening the coastline all the way down to Miami, a New York stock exchange ...

19th Century Americans

“Thank you, Hu Jintao, and thank you, China,” said Hugo Chavez, as he announced a $20 billion loan from Beijing, to be repaid in Venezuelan oil. The Chinese just ...

Katyn and “€˜The Good War”€™

The decapitation of the Polish government last weekend, including President Lech Kaczynski and the military leadership, on that flight to Smolensk to commemorate the Katyn ...

What War With Iran Means

“Diplomacy has failed,” Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told AIPAC, “Iran is on the verge of becoming nuclear and we cannot afford that.” “We have to ...

Bibi’s Hollow Victory

“The Jewish people were building Jerusalem 3,000 years ago, and the Jewish people are building Jerusalem today. Jerusalem is not a settlement. It is our ...

American Naifs Bringing Ruin to Other Lands

According to news reports, the U.S. military is shipping “bunker-buster” bombs to the U.S. Air Force base at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. The Herald Scotland ...

Yes, Africa Must Go To Hell

I welcome James Jackson's courage in pointing out the fact that Africa's chronic dysfunction is the result of, not white European rule in the past, but black Africans rule in the ...


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