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The American Empire and Your Liberty
Empire abroad is a massive threat to your liberty at home. Ultimately, as many founders warned, we could have either empire or liberty. But not both. The fundamental characteristics of a growing empire undermine the very foundation of the constitutional system. Empire...
Thomas Jefferson and the American Principle of Peaceful Coexistence
With two decades of perpetual war, America has drifted far from one of its founding principles – peaceful coexistence with other nations. Thomas Jefferson summed up this foundational foreign policy in his first inaugural address, calling for a policy of...
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...
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...