James Mattis is making the talk show rounds, promoting his new book, “Call Sign Chaos.” Interestingly, while openly critical of President George W. Bush for being unprepared for the Iraq War, and President Barack Obama for lacking a strategy and being too...
He appeared today on RT:
The death toll in Yemen has reached over 91,600 according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED). The ACLED records that 4,500 direct civilian targeting events resulted in 11,700 recorded civilian fatalities since the US-Saudi led coalition...
Snatching war from the jaws of peace, the long-worked on peace deal negotiated between the US and Taliban leaders has apparently been tossed into the trash can and the US will return to its 18 year losing battle in Afghanistan. The deal's demise was blamed on an...
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Trump’s abrupt announcement over the weekend that he was canceling a meeting with Taliban leaders at Camp David has displayed much of what is wrong with the president’s handling of foreign policy:What would...
Despite an early chivalrous ring, World War I was not "the war to end all wars," it was a harbinger. Western civilization emerged from the ruins of the "Great War" more belligerent than ever before, now for the sake of prognostications by so-called experts or in...
". . . and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore."These lost words – Isaiah 2:4 – are nearly 3,000 years old. Did they ever...
Through the summer the world has watched as protests shook Hong Kong. As early as April they began as peaceful demonstrations which peaked in early June, with hundreds of thousands, in protest of an extradition bill. That bill would have allowed Hong Kong, a Special...
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Former Vice President Biden has foolishly tried to claim that he immediately turned against the Iraq war after it started:"Immediately, that moment it started, I came out against the war at that moment," Biden...
Those hoping for a US withdrawal from Afghanistan after 18 years of pointless war and a new peace deal with the Taliban are going to be disappointed. According to press reports, the US will be keeping more troops in Afghanistan than it is removing. Will 8,000 troops...
