Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. You can’t make this stuff up. The “liberal” New York Times has now explained why the U.S. has so many overseas military bases in the Middle East and elsewhere. Anton Troianovski, who covers global diplomacy,...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. The worst of the Iran War may be over, according to this report from NBC News: Oil plunged and markets surged amid a report the U.S. and Iran are nearing a deal to end the war as gas prices jumped past $4.50....
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Every now and then, I get out one of my globes to remind myself of the geography of America’s many distant wars. Here’s a photo I took a couple of days ago: It’s always staggering to ponder how small Israel is...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. News out of the Pentagon is that the great retreat from Germany is beginning. Five thousand U.S. troops are being withdrawn at the request of a petulant president who can’t stand criticism of his disastrous...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Courtesy of NBC News, here’s a brief summary of the butcher’s bill of the latest wars in the Middle East: Iran’s forensics chief said nearly 3,400 people had been killed in the country since U.S.-Israeli...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. America has a nasty – and uncoincidental – pattern of bombing and intervening in countries largely populated by nonwhite peoples. These are, essentially, exercises in neocolonial power. Recent targets include...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. This is madness. Unhinged madness. Imagine “blessing” the people of Iran while threatening to end their entire civilization. Yesterday, I was watching the war movie, “Fury,” which does a decent job of showing...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. I watched President Trump’s speech to the nation last night on the Iran War. The lies and boasts flew thick. According to Trump, America is winning and winning big. Under Joe Biden, America was “crippled” and...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. The worse a war goes, the more those who wage it feel compelled to lie about it. That pattern is visible today in America’s escalating conflict with Iran. This isn’t a war formally declared, clearly explained,...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. This morning, I went on “Judging Freedom” with Judge Napolitano to discuss the latest tomfoolery by the Trump administration. Judge Napolitano showed a clip of a U.S. government official, a nuclear...
