"America wins the wars that she undertakes, make no mistake about it, and we have declared war on tyranny and aggression." Obama, one of the Bushes or Clinton? It's a familiar bit of nonsense, but it was said by Lyndon Johnson sometime around 5
3. The Fake Nayirah Testimony
In 1990, a young girl provided a fake name and testimony to the Congressional Human Rights Caucus. She claimed that babies were pulled out of incubators by Iraqi soldiers with the overt intent of murder. This testimon
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) has a message for the liberals attacking her criticism of President Trump's missile strike on Syria, warning that a rush to aggression risks repeating the same mistakes that led the United States into the Iraq War.
Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes… known instruments for bringing the many under t
The past week has been an immensely clarifying -- and profoundly demoralizing -- one in American politics. It has demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that the country's foreign policy establishment, along with its leading center-right and cente
Disgraced former CIA director and convicted criminal David Petraeus has been remaking the NSC, and thus America's national security policy, in his image through puppet H.R. McMaster. In what is being called "Petraeus' second war," McMaster ha
Anyone who has followed American foreign policy for any length of time, is very familiar with the term "wag the dog". And anyone who has followed President Trump's abandonment of his campaign pledge of not being the world's policeman is intim
With President Trump's undeclared attack on Syria, a sovereign and independent nation, he has confirmed, once and for all, that he is just another foreign interventionist, no different from his predecessors Barack Obama and George W. Bush.
It was a sure sign that emotion had once again trumped reason when both the left and the right agreed that Trump had a moral imperative to attack the Syrian air base. The implication was that the United States should intercede with force whenever bar
So, Trump has gone against what he swore he'd do and bombed the hell out of a Syrian air base, to thunderous applause on seemingly every side. His enemies now love him… he's being called Presidential… and once again, millions of Americans hav
President Donald Trump's administration ordered a missile attack on the Syrian government's al-Shayrat airbase near Homs on Thursday evening, taking a rapid about-face on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to a military conclusion in the wake of a chem
Rumors of war are percolating in Washington D.C., and if the Trump administration is not extremely careful it may find itself fighting several disastrous wars simultaneously.
One hundred years ago today, President Woodrow Wilson, who was elected on his antiwar slogans, asked a joint House-Senate session for a declaration of war on Germany. His war has launched endless wars ever since...and only made the world safe for the
Apr. 6 is the 100th anniversary of the entry of the United States into the Great War in Europe, now known as World War I (WWI). Congress passed its Declaration of War on that date in 1917.
In what is often considered the most controversial of his many scholarly books, this exploration into the putative causes of World War Two by renowned British historian A.P.J. Taylor caused great controversy and discussion when published in the sixti
OKINAWA-While the world watches mounting military tensions in the South China Sea, another, more ominous situation is brewing in the East China Sea that could be the trigger point for a major war between the superpowers.
We're allowing a mindset of "anything Trump does is wrong" coupled with lightening-speed historical revisionism for the Obama era to sustain the same mistakes in the war on terror that have fueled Islamic terrorism for the past 15 years. Howeve