Foreign Policy
Bring All the Troops Home: Stop Policing the Globe and Put an End to Endless Wars
It’s time to bring all our troops home. Bring them home from Somalia, Iraq and Syria. Bring them home from Germany, South Korea and Japan. Bring them home from Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Oman. Bring them home from Niger, Chad and Mali. Bring them home from Turkey, the...
Biden Quietly Ramps Up Bombing Somalia
While most foreign policy attention has been focused on Afghanistan, the Biden administration has ramped up bombing in Somalia. U.S. forces bombed targets in Somalia three times in late July and early August. Prior to Biden’s ramp-up, the last time AFRICOM...
The Omnipotent Power to Assassinate
It goes without saying that the Constitution called into existence a government with few, limited powers. That was the purpose of enumerating the powers of the federal government. If the Constitution was bringing into existence a government of unlimited or omnipotent...
Conservative Hypocrisy on Foreign Aid
After initially threatening to veto it, Donald Trump signed into law a $2.3 trillion, 5,593-page spending bill that no member of Congress had read. The “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021” (H.R.133), which is a combination of twelve annual funding bills, COVID-19...