Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Whenever I watch my hometown baseball team, the Boston Red Sox, at Fenway Park I’m told by a message painted along the first and third base lines to “build submarines.” At commercial breaks between innings,...

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. American foreign policy remains in the grip of heretics. They believe that the Prince of Peace is actually a god of war. They believe America is strengthened by entangling alliances (think here of our...

As Israel is ethnically cleansing Gaza, the United States is ethically cleansing Israel. It doesn’t matter what Israel does to the Palestinians in Gaza. War crimes or genocide, it’s all ethically justifiable, according to U.S. government officials. Never conflate the...

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Checking my daily email from Reuters Thursday morning revealed these two stories: US President Joe Biden is expected to sign a new security agreement with Ukraine to pledge America's long-term support, while...

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. If you have to kill 274 people to free four others being held hostage, is that a “successful” military operation? According to the Israeli and U.S. governments, it is. Israel, apparently with some U.S. help,...

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Remember when Barack Obama claimed in 2007-09 the Afghan War was the right war, the good one, as opposed to the wrong and bad Iraq War prosecuted by Bush/Cheney? Of course, they were both disastrous wars, but...

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. I heard yesterday that H. Bruce Franklin had died at the age of 90. Bruce and I never met, but we corresponded and talked on a few occasions. An Air Force veteran and cultural historian, he was a principled...

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. The latest headline from the New York Times shows mission creep for NATO in the Russia-Ukraine War: As Russia Advances, NATO Considers Sending Trainers Into Ukraine By Helene Cooper, Julian E. Barnes, Eric...

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Last week, President Biden appeared to have strapped on a temporary spine in delaying shipments of “offensive” weaponry to Israel for its murderous invasion of Rafah in Gaza. That spine had a short duration as...

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. When Barack Obama took over as president in 2009, the global war on terror, or GWOT, just didn’t seem to fit the tenor of his “hope” and “change” message. So wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were rebranded as...