Brandishing the Big Stick
Teddy Roosevelt once described his approach to foreign affairs as speaking softly while carrying a big stick. Over the past few days, Donald Trump apparently came close to using that stick, but he...
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The root cause of terrorism lies not in grievances but in a disposition toward unbridled violence. This can be traced to a world view which asserts that certain ideological and religious goals justify,...
View ArticleBREAKING: WaPo Discovers the Government Lies
WaPo has published a long piece on one of the Lessons Learned reports of the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (aka SIGAR). The article is based on documents...
View ArticleCultural Sites and War Crimes
John Hinderacker has a post over at PowerLine about war crime hysteria on the Left. The Democrats hyperventilate endlessly over hypothetical offenses that President Trump hasn’t committed and, I...
View ArticleGnats and Elephants
The United States fired one missile. It hit its target, and there was trivial collateral damage. Iran launched 15 missiles. Four (over 25 %) failed in flight. The remain eleven all missed their...
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When The Narrative Fails
From the Internet’s Newspaper of Record—I’m so old I remember when outlets like The Babylon Bee were still satire, and satire was a form of joking.
View ArticleMeanwhile, in the Persian Gulf …
… the Iranians are getting restless. During the final years of the Obama Administration, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps repeatedly engaged in harassment of U.S. Naval vessels in the Persian...
View ArticleDon’t Let Your Mouth Write a Check …
Legal Insurrection reports that Iran has been making public threats against the life of President Donald Trump. Tomorrow is the anniversary of the airstrike that killed Revolutionary Guards commander...
View ArticleNothing to See Here. Move Along.
According to an Agence France-Presse report published by France 24, North Korea and Iran have resumed cooperation long-range missiles development according to the UN. The report, which was submitted to...
View ArticleAfghanistan’s Future
I’m seeing posts around the Interwebz saying the Taliban will drag Afghanistan back to the 15th century. I believe that it’s more likely the country will wind up stuck in one of the uglier corners of...
View ArticleAbout That Speech
I watched Joe Xiden’s speech on Monday via the White House YouTube channel. His lips were moving.
View ArticleLeaks in the Memory Hole
Too many of the wrong people have been caught up in the Afghanistan fiasco for The Media to quietly go along with the Xiden Administration’s attempts to edit the news. During the long war, reporters...
View ArticleNon-Stranded Non-Hostages
White House press flack Jen Psaki has admitted that it is likely that there will be American citizens still stranded in Afghanistan after 31 August. Indeed, given the current progress in the...
View ArticleI Watched Joe Xiden’s Speech This Afternoon
His lips were moving. It’s also clear that he and whoever drafted his remarks are unfamiliar with the context of Isaiah 6.
View ArticleEverything Is Proceeding As I Have Foreseen
I wish I were wrong, but I’m not. I understand the frustration of the actual warriors feel because of the incompetence of the the generals and admirals who are supposed to be leading them. I turned...
View ArticleA Phone Call With A Foreign Leader
Reuters reports the transcript of Joe Xiden’s 23 July phone call with Afghan President Ghani contains the following— Biden: Mr. President, Joe Biden. Ghani: Of course, Mr. President, such a pleasure...
View ArticleDéjà Vu and 1979
The Xiden Administration quietly dropped the Houthi jihadis in Yemen (backed by Iran) from the list of foreign terrorist organizations. Today, it was reported the Houthis stormed our embassy in Sana’a,...
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Reuters is reporting U.N. inspectors have found that roughly 2.5 tons of natural uranium have gone missing from a Libyan site. IAEA inspectors found that 10 drums containing approximately 2.5 tons of...
View ArticleCasus Belli?
Which of these will be touted by the usual suspects in the main stream media— (A) Trump moved the embassy to Jerusalem, or (B) Biden just gave Iran 6 billion dollars? I’m betting on (A).
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What Winning Looks Like
Here’s what winning a war looks like:That’s a picture of Atlanta in 1864. Here’s what Berlin and Hiroshima looked like in 1945. When a war is completely won, one side crushes its enemies, killing them...
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Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat the enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as...
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The Afterlife: Two Views
This has been lurking on X (TSMPFKAT)—Here’s an alternate report from Paradise— The next thing Osama bin Ladin saw after the muzzle flash was the Gates of Paradise and the Angel Gabriel beckoning him...
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An Imagined Freedom From Consequences
The Harvard Palestinian Solidarity Committee staged a “die-in” at the Harvard Business School. As hundreds of people were lying on the ground, someone began walking through the crowd and photographing...
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