Terrorism Forgotten

Why America Lacks Interest in the Ongoing Jihad Threat

The Fraud Of John Brennen

Former CIA chief John Brennen lost his security clearance and there's been the expected huffing and puffing about it - but the reality is he never should have gotten a clearance to start with, because he is a liar.

Obama Kisses His Own Ass

And yep, his nitwit bumkissing assistant Ben Rhodes is back with a memoir on his boss that shows how much an idiot he is (and Rhodes as well).

Obama's Foreign Policy Failures And Legal Standing

This piece examines Barack Obama's foreign policy failures and whether they can hit him legally.

Trump Trumps Obama's Appeasement

As Donald Trump stands up for the human race and against actual international enemies, he's laying waste to the phony reputation of Barack Obama, and Obama's ass-humpers don't like it.

Border Walls Worldwide

They are universal because they work.

Is Trump Adopting the Diplomacy Delusion?

Not fighting to win never works - diplomacy never works, either.

North Korea Is a Reminder That Preemption Works

North Korea is a predador state that now has nuclear weapons - and it is surprising that the US in 1994 actually considered attacking its nuclear program.

The Endgame In The Middle East

This piece warns about mission creep in Syria. Certainly a legitimate concern, but there is also the reality that actually solcing the problem of Islamo-Arab imperialism requires more than limited missions.

The Flynn Affair

Michael Flynn's resignation as President Donald Trump's first national security adviser won't end the controversy surrounding the new administration's purported ties to Russia.

Depending on which sources you consult, Flynn was either one of Vladimir Putin's stooges or a martyr to the swamp—the permanent bureaucracy in Washington. The truth is undoubtedly more complicated. And it's crucial that we get closer to it.

Flynn had a target painted on his back long before he ever joined Trump's White House. As head of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the Pentagon's main intelligence shop, he often clashed with colleagues and the rest of the sprawling intelligence bureaucracy. He was forced to resign from this post in 2014. But Flynn wasn't an incompetent intelligence officer, as some detractors have claimed. He often got the big issues right.

In 2010, when he was deputy chief of intelligence for NATO's International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, Flynn coauthored a scathing report that concluded the U.S. intelligence community is only marginally relevant to the overall strategy in that war-torn country. That was correct—it is obvious from many independent sources that the quality of intelligence on Afghanistan has been abysmal.

Will New NSA McMaster Shake Things Up?

A Russia hawk and a Russian peace proposal that perhaps wasn't

A week after Donald Trump asked Mike Flynn to resign from his post as national security advisor, the president has announced another Army general, H.R. McMaster, as Flynn’s replacement. If there are any worthwhile objections to McMaster's appointment among the broad national security, military, and political realms, I have yet to read them. The universal admiration for Trump's pick is reminiscent of his selection of Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court vacancy—something conservatives, moderates, and even a few liberals are happy about.

McMaster's military service and leadership are well known and well regarded in national security circles. His 1998 book Derelicition of Duty about the mismanagement of the Vietnam War at the top of the command chain was a popular read among commanders in Iraq. McMaster was one of those commanders, leading the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment to take back the northern Iraq town of Tal Afar from al Qaeda in 2005. He was instrumental in developing the surge strategy with David Petraeus. McMaster is also perceived as fairly hawkish on Russia, which contrasts him greatly with Flynn and the president himself.

Edward Snowden: Spy or Useful Idiot Savant?

A look at traitor Edward Snowden and also a follow-up look by Edward Jay Epstein.

Trump And Dishonest Intelligence Services

The politicization of US intelligence services has been a dirty open secret for a very long time and Donald Trump has merely spoken truth to that power.

The Way to Peace: Israeli Victory, Palestinian Defeat

The "Palestinains" are a fiction of history and by any sober fact the enemy - so the way to get peace is to defeat them, period.

Credibility Counts

Obama and his buttboys claim otherwise, in the face of overwhelming evidence against them

"On January 12, 1950, Secretary of State Dean Acheson delivered a speech in Washington, the reverberations of which were felt on the other side of the world. Describing U.S. foreign policy objectives in Asia, a region where both China and the Soviet Union were seeking to spread Marxist-Leninist revolution, Acheson declared that America had established, by force of arms, a “defensive perimeter that ran along the Aleutians to Japan and then goes to the Ryukyus. More significant than the territories Acheson included, however, was the one he left out: the Korean peninsula. There, in the northern half, the Soviet- and Chinese-backed Communist regime of Kim Il-sung was preparing to invade its southern neighbor.

Five months after Acheson conspicuously neglected to include South Korea under the American security umbrella, the North did indeed invade the South, at Stalin's urging. In the first military action ever authorized by the newly established United Nations Security Council, the United States assembled a multinational coalition to defend South Korea from military aggression. After three years of fighting and more than a million deaths, the war ended with an approximate reversion to the pre-conflict borders."

The Faltering Of Global Democracy

The rise of international predator states in the last twenty-plus years has taken on different paths compared to the more distant past. This piece examines how it is happening and what incoming President Trump should do about it.. Among the symptoms are -

Increasing state surveillance and censorship of the internet

Diffuse decay of the rule of law

Increasing fear and intimidation as protections for civil liberties crumble

Banning the receipt of financial and technical assistance by international aid agencies and democracy foundations

Blatant pressure on the business community to serve the ruling party

The cancerous spread of crony capitalism and state corruption

The piece further notes these to be tactics successfully used by Vladimir Putin and Hugo Chavez among others.

The Dignity of the United States Navy

The Dignity of the United States Navy is under siege

Something to remember 75 years after Pearl Harbor: The United States Navy is the best in the world, by an order of magnitude. No other navy is remotely as powerful. There are 40 in-service aircraft carriers in the world; 19 of them are ours. (Russia has just one, and it's in bad shape.) By a civilian count, we have 72 nuclear subs to Russia's 30. Our navy has assured the peace— Pax Americana—for decades, as the British fleet did in 19th century. So far as I can tell, our navy has only one embarrassing shortcoming: Its ships are named by idiots.


The original six frigates of the American Navy were the United States, the President, the Congress, the Chesapeake, the Constellation, and Old Ironsides—the Constitution. For a long time, our ship names followed specific naming traditions: battle ships were named for states, cruisers for cities, destroyers for naval heroes, aircraft carriers for great ships of the past, and so on. But, on the eve of the 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, I've just learned the name of a new destroyer shortly to be built: the USS Carl M. Levin.

What Game Is Russia Playing?

There are two separate issues in Red Russia's game

Reports Friday that U.S. intelligence agencies believe Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential campaign to tilt the election in favor of Donald Trump have sown precisely the kind of confusion that American adversaries must have hoped for with their actions. In an effort to reach some sort of clarity, let's break the matter down into two separate questions—Was it Russia that hacked the Democratic National Committee's servers? Did the culprits hack the servers in order to secure a Trump victory?


Of course it's vital to defend our political institutions against cyber-attacks, which should perhaps be best understood as military campaigns. As House Speaker Paul Ryan explained in a statement released earlier today, any foreign intervention in our elections is entirely unacceptable. And any intervention by Russia is especially problematic because, under President Putin, Russia has been an aggressor that consistently undermines American interests.

An Open Letter To Donald Trump On Foreign Policy

Richard Epstein authors this open letter on foreign policy to the President-elect.

Also noteworthy is this look at the myth of intellectuals versus the wisdom of actual experience, cunning, and work

Obama Leads From Behind To Failure

Even Obama now admits his leading from behind in Libya was a failure. And there is NO success to speak of from this attempt to outsource victory over international enemies.