In a Wall Street Journal column called "The Clear and Present Danger of Trump," former Clinton adviser William Galston of the Brookings Institution recently proclaimed, "It is time for the secretary of defense, the secretary of state, and the national...
Scattered ISIS Attacks near Kirkuk; 54 Killed in Iraq
NBC’s Clueless Boost for Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s team swept a doubleheader on March 1, with his mid-day speech claiming strategic parity with the U.S., and then the nightcap duel with NBC’s Megyn Kelly. Any lingering doubt that Putin is a shoo-in for another term as President is...
Trump’s Spur of the Moment ‘Yes’ Unmasked 68 Years of Washington Duplicity
They say that even a blind squirrel occasionally finds an acorn, and by our lights the Donald just proved that in spades with his spur of the moment acceptance of Kim Jong Un's proposal for a summit meeting. It is no exaggeration to say that the shock of it nearly...
Inflated Threats: China and Russia Aren’t Nearly as Dangerous as We’re Meant To Believe
"[Rome] pretends to aspire to peace but unerringly generates war…there was no corner of the known world where some interest was not alleged to be in danger…Rome was always being attacked by evil-minded neighbors…the whole world was pervaded by a host of...
Security Forces Launch New ISIS Operation; 40 Killed in Iraq
Once Upon a Time, Congress Actually Fought Saudi Arms Deals. It Can Again.
“That should’ve happened so fast that Congress couldn’t step in.” These were the words of Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen at February’s prestigious Munich Security Conference, in a panel discussion on whether President Obama should have used military...
Trump Is Making Diplomacy Great Again
No sooner had I published a column entitled “And Now For The Good News,” predicting that the war on the Korean peninsula the Never Trumpers had been envisioning (and secretly hoping for) would not happen, and hailing the North-South negotiations as the first step...
Gang of Four: Senators Call for Tillerson To Enter Into Arms Control Talks With the Kremlin
In a sad commentary on the parlous state of the U.S. media, a letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson from four United States Senators dated March 8 calling for opening arms control talks with the Kremlin ASAP is nowhere to be found in mainstream newspapers a day...


