Remember a year ago when Israel invaded Lebanon? What the hell was that about? Lebanon used to be the Paris of the Middle East. Now, here’s what you get in Beruit: Syria continues to poke its fingers into Lebanon’s government.… Continue Reading
What is it with Presidents named Bush? They like to leave messy foreign policy entanglements for their successors to deal with. The first President Bush left Somalia and Bosnia, and his successor could no more find a clean, politically satisfactory… Continue Reading
If you were elected President in 2008, what would your policies be? I’m looking forward to your comments…
This morning’s note of displeasure came from noting a brief story on CNN about another act of aggression by the Iranian navy. I’m sure the Iranians have their version of events, but it will lack credibility, just as their version… Continue Reading
Biography John Sidney McCain III will be 72 years old on the next Inauguration Day. McCain was born in 1936 in the Panama Canal Zone, which at the time was a United States possession. Both his father and grandfather were… Continue Reading
I’m unnerved to learn that earlier this morning, Benazir Bhutto was assassinated near her home in Pakistan. It’s seemed to me for a long time that Pakistan has a critical role to play in the ongoing geopolitical struggle which we… Continue Reading
Biography Barack Obama will be 47 years old on the next Inauguration Day. Obama’s father was a Kenyan exchange student at the University of Hawaii when he met Obama’s mother, a student from Kansas. When Obama was two years old,… Continue Reading
Let’s say I were to project into the future a quintipolar world – one in which there were five primary centers of military and economic power (what we today call “superpowers”). Those powers would be the United States of America,… Continue Reading
Biography Mike Huckabee will be 53 years old on the next Inauguration Day. Born in 1955 to a blue-collar family, Mike Huckabee married his wife when he was 18 years old, graduated magna cum laude in two and a half… Continue Reading
A century ago, American soldiers in the Phillipines started doing something they called the “water cure,” which today we would call “waterboarding.” President Teddy Roosevelt responded to news of this going on by sending out a telegram to the commander… Continue Reading