Editorial note: What follows is the text of a speech delivered at the MidCoast Forum on Foreign Relations in Rockport, Maine, on April 21, 2008. One would think that the title of my talk – "The Middle East: Turning the Page on U.S. Foreign Policy" – is...
Editorial note: Three times a week, I address specific foreign policy issues in this space, from the war in Iraq to the next war just over the horizon. Today, however, I want to step back and give you, the reader, some idea of who we are and why we do what we do....
Editorial note: What follows was intended as the new introduction to my first book, Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement, originally published by the Center for Libertarian Studies in 1993 and about to be reprinted by ISI Books....
Bob Barr's announcement that he is making a run for the White House on the Libertarian ticket has many advocates of a non-interventionist foreign policy hopeful, even excited – and I include myself among them. A successor to Ron Paul is right around the corner,...
Two years ago, when I was in Kuala Lumpur as a guest of the Perdana Peace Forum, I had the singularly unpleasant experience of meeting Robert Mugabe. Well, "meeting" him is hardly the word: rather, I espied him, sitting directly across from me, at the opening banquet...
Aside from the expected drivel and boilerplate rhetoric, the testimony of Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker before Congress on Tuesday had a few surprises. Yes, we all know the administration's line: the "surge" is working, all's well, oh sure,...
The pollsters are now telling us John McCain could pull it off, with match-ups pitting him against both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton showing the War Party's favorite son neck-and-neck with the Dems. Aside from the nearly complete meaninglessness of such data at...
I have to laugh – otherwise, I'll never stop crying. In perusing the headlines this morning , trying to decide which fresh disaster to focus on, I'm reminded of what H. L. Mencken had to say about America in the third volume of his Prejudices: "Here, more than...
The relentless march of NATO, decades after the implosion of the Soviet Union and the death knell of the Leninist project, is surely an object lesson in the real motivations and character of "democratic" imperialism, here and in Europe. The Communist enemy may be long...
It was shocking, hearing CIA director Michael Hayden tell Tim Russert on Sunday morning that we're wide open to another 9/11-style terrorist attack. Al-Qaeda, he said, is turning to operatives who "look Western" and "wouldn't attract your attention if they were going...
