War
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...
The Government Spent Over $300 Million a Day for 20 Years on Unconstitutional Afghanistan War
James Madison warned that “of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded.” Why? Because it comprises and develops the germ of every other enemy of liberty. “War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and...