Obama’s Historic Visit To Cuba Is The Right Policy – OpEd
President Obama’s historic opening to Cuba has come under fire from Republican and even some Democratic hawks because Cuban President Raul Castro did not greet him at the airport and because the Cuban...
View ArticleAre Western ‘Victories’ Against The Islamic State Really That Significant? –...
The latest Western “victories” over the Islamic State—the U.S. killing of the number two man in the heinous group and the Russian supported retaking of the ancient town of Palmyra, Syria by the Syrian...
View ArticleMore Western Military Meddling In Libya Is A Bad Idea – OpEd
Unbelievably, after causing the chaos in Libya by overthrowing Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, the United States is about to lead another Western military intervention designed to unify the...
View ArticleUS Alliances: Trump Is Not So Stupid – OpEd
At a recent news conference, President Obama called into question Donald Trump’s fitness for office by criticizing his policy stances on ceding living space to Russia as another great power and pushing...
View ArticleThe US Should Quit Coddling Badly Behaving Saudi Arabia – OpEd
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has convincingly advocated a reassessment of U.S. alliances around the world. President Obama’s recent visit to Saudi Arabia should prompt such a...
View ArticleTrump’s Foreign Policy Is The Realism America Needs – OpEd
Despite Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s reality-show candidacy, his recent foreign-policy speech put forth a realistic view of the world and a largely credible foreign policy to face...
View ArticleUS Military Needs To Defend Country, Not Undermine American Security – OpEd
As President Obama visits still-communist Vietnam, a former American rival, in his “pivot to Asia” to recruit more countries to shelter against a rising China, the trip only serves to illustrate the...
View ArticleTrajectory Of US Policy In Vietnam Offers Roadmap To Possible Future In...
As President Barack Obama’s visit to Vietnam and the lifting of the arms embargo to that country represents his “pivot to Asia,” his simultaneous killing of Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, the Taliban...
View ArticleTrump’s Approach To North Korea Bucks Foreign Policy Elite – OpEd
Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, is at it again, horrifying the U.S. foreign policy elite by saying that he would speak to Kim Jong Un, the erratic North Korean leader, to...
View ArticleMuhammad Ali’s Real Legacy: True Patriotism – OpEd
Although it is customary to say nice things about a person who has died, Muhammad Ali has been rightly commended for not only his superb boxing career but also his principled opposition to the...
View Article‘Experts’ Are Wrong In Advocating Escalation In Syria – OpEd
More than 50 U.S. mid-level diplomats have sent a memo through the State Department’s “dissent channel” to a likely sympathetic Secretary of State John Kerry, advocating an American bombing campaign to...
View ArticleHillary’s Foreign Policy Is Scarier Than Trump’s – OpEd
The senseless murder of forty-nine revelers at an Orlando, Florida, nightclub has amplified our need for a long overdue national conversation this election season about the overall direction of U.S....
View ArticleAt Their Own Peril, Americans Are Fuzzy On History – OpEd
The nation’s observed birthday—July 4th—always brings forth what passes for modern day “patriotism”: prominent displays of the flag everywhere, celebration of the military, picnics, backyard barbeques,...
View ArticleTrading Places: Swapping Roles Of Police And Military Is Bad For Republic – OpEd
Lately, the tactics of local police departments have been in the news because of mass shootings at Orlando and Fort Myers nightclubs, questionable police killings of civilians in suburban St. Paul and...
View ArticleWill Hillary Enmesh Us Deeper In Syrian Quagmire? – OpEd
Unless some unforeseen miracle happens for Donald Trump, Hawkish Hillary (at least as accurate a nickname as Crooked Hillary) is likely to be the next president of the United States. Although Hillary...
View ArticleWhy President Obama Has Difficulty Garnering Respect Internationally – OpEd
As President Obama gave his valedictory speech to the United Nations General Assembly and recently returned from a farewell tour of East Asia, it sure seemed like other countries were dissing him....
View ArticleFirst Debate Showed Both US Major Candidates Severely Wanting In Foreign...
Although Hillary seemed more likeable than usual in the first presidential debate and Trump was his old angry and agitated self, they both still have record-breaking unfavorable ratings as candidates....
View ArticleRussia Not As Great A Threat As Depicted In Media, But Does Need Slap In Face...
Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, couldn’t catch a break in America, even before the U.S. intelligence community concluded that the Russian government had hacked the Democratic National...
View ArticleIs Trump Already Headed Down Path Of George W. Bush Presidency? – OpEd
President-elect Donald Trump, during his campaign, refreshingly criticized Republican George W. Bush’s war in Iraq and Democrat Barack Obama’s war in Libya; seemingly advocated a more restrained...
View ArticlePresidential War Is Unconstitutional – OpEd
The Obama administration has decided to stretch the 15-year old congressional authorization for war against the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks, or those harboring them, to include an illegal war...
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