by Peter Van Buren | Jul 25, 2016 | News
As terrorism struck again in Nice and Germany and… Donald Trump outlined his policy against Islamic State: as president, he will seek a full declaration of war from Congress, the first such formal invocation since Pearl Harbor.Trump was short on specifics but...
by Peter Van Buren | Jul 10, 2016 | News
The Dallas police ended a standoff with the gunman who killed five officers with a tactic that is unprecedented: it blew him up using a robot.This represents the first time in American history that a drone (wheels for now, maybe wings later) was used to kill an...
by Peter Van Buren | Jun 23, 2016 | News
Ashley Cervantes, a then 18-year-old American citizen, was stopped at the Mexico border and, for some unspecified reason, perhaps related to her being young and of Hispanic ethnicity, accused by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) of smuggling drugs.What Drugs?A...
by Peter Van Buren | Jun 18, 2016 | News
Now this is one way to stop terrorism, particularly the funding of ISIS. Did the United States clamp down on Saudi Arabia funneling millions to ISIS and other Sunni terror groups? Use American military power to stop the illegal weapons trade to ISIS? Bomb the hell out...
by Peter Van Buren | May 16, 2016 | News
There’s no past in Washington. There is no sense that actions taken today will exist past today, even though in reality they often echo for decades.A video making the rounds online shows a fighter from a Kurdish group known as Kurdish Workers Party, or, more commonly,...
