China Hands Should Enthusiastically Support Trump’s Tariffs; Democratizing China was a failed promise; time for something new

Opinions about President Trump’s efforts to rebalance international trade and isolate communist China are legion. Some characterize the resulting policy shift to isolate communist China as brilliant and long overdue while others call it economic malpractice.

There Is Only One Crime in War, and That’s Losing

One of the most controversial episodes of the television show Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is “In the Pale Moonlight,” in which Captain Benjamin Sisko, plagued by the mounting casualty lists in the interstellar war between the United Federation of Planets and Klingon Empire against the Cardassian Union and the Dominion, concocts a plan to …

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Going to War Based on Intelligence Estimates? We’ve Done That Before!

In 2002, President George W Bush started pushing for military action against Iraq, which the Central Intelligence Agency had told him was building and holding ‘weapons of mass destruction,’ WMD, in violation of United Nations’ sanctions after President Saddam Hussein al Tikriti had sent his Republican Guard to conquer and annex bordering Kuwait. President Hussein’s …

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