In the Republican and Democratic presidential debates, President Barack Obama's ultimate rejection of using force against Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, for using chemical weapons against his own people, keeps being raised as an issue. In all cases, the debate...
January 17 is the 25th anniversary of the beginning of Desert Storm – George H. W. Bush's first Gulf War against Saddam Hussein's Iraq to liberate Kuwait from his clutches, only to return it to its previous despotic rulers. The victory appeared to be smashing,...
In America, the public, some politicians, and even President Obama have a vague awareness that U.S. government policies affect the recruitment of terrorists by radical groups. However, going too far with such self-awareness leads to excessively unsettling conclusions...
The United Nations top official on human rights recently told the U.N. Security Council that the U.S.-supported, Saudi Arabian-led coalition of Sunni nations fighting Shi'ite Houthi rebels in Yemen bore a disproportionate responsibility for attacks on civilians. Since...
In the U.S. Constitution, the nation's founders originally conceived of a very limited federal government that protected, rather than usurped, the liberty of its people (not just its citizens), and also defended those same people, their territory, and way of life from...
Legal scholars don't agree on whether Donald Trump's demagogic proposal to temporarily ban any of the world's 1.6 billion Muslims from entering the United States would be constitutional. That disagreement says more about the sorry state of the constitutional law...
Predictably, the 2016 presidential field didn't exactly give a rousing endorsement of President Barack Obama's prime time speech on fighting terrorism. The reactions ranged from the superficial – Donald's correct but irrelevant observation that Obama's use of...
As the crazy protracted carnival of the presidential election rolls forward with ever more outrageous rhetoric, spin, downright lies, and "gotcha" moments, it bears remembering what's on television usually has little to do with reality. For example, despite...
In contrast to most Republican candidates, who have given us general platitudes about "getting tougher on terrorism" or vague promises to use more ground troops in Iraq or Syria, Hillary Clinton has proposed a more concrete program for battling ISIS;...
In the wake of the heinous attacks on civilians in Paris, the French are now prone to repeating the same mistakes the United States made after the even more barbaric 9/11 attacks. The natural reaction of politicians – whether they be Democratic, Republican, or...
