Foreign Policy
Twenty Years On, We’ve Learned Nothing From 9/11
Nothing upset the Washington Beltway elites more than when in a 2007 presidential debate I pointed out the truth about the 9/11 attacks: they attacked us because we’ve been in the Middle East, sanctioning and bombing the civilian population, for decades. The 9/11...
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...