Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
It was late September, an early fall in Montana in 2013. I received a call to inquire if I would co-chair a non-governmental organization (NGO) delegation to Cairo, Egypt. The purpose was to meet the head of the Egyptian Armed Forces and other groups involved with the protests and removal of the Muslim Brotherhood
Israel’s longest-serving Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, stood to address the United Nations on Friday, September 26, and much of the room walked out. The world press paints this as a repudiation. The world is wrong.
There are stories in the news saying that the bloom is off the rose, that the special relationship between the United States and Israel is breaking down.
Did we hit Iran hard enough before we stopped? This is always the question, anytime you engage in diplomacy, warfare, or a combination of the two. When it becomes necessary to do something, the question is “How much?”
Well, we are a republic, with a constitutionally organized separation of powers. In the USA, to start a new war, the Congress declares it after taking a proper vote.
When a head of state – such as the President of the United States, for example – wants to encourage certain behaviors in a foreign government, the toolbox is limited.
Diplomacy has rules. No matter how serious the subject matter, the negotiators are expected to be cordial, respectful, no matter what they may privately think of the person or persons sitting on the other side of the table….Most days.
American manufacturing has been declining for half a century. It hasn’t disappeared, of course; manufacturing is still a big part of the American economy. But it’s not what it was, and that’s a problem.
While pictures out of Syria show people celebrating the removal of Assad, I’ll provide some key points about the factions, possible strategic consequences, and a few words of caution.
Please stop pleading for a ceasefire as if it was a simple barfight over some meaningless disagreement. This is existential, and Israel deserves the support of the world in defending itself from these demonic enemies.
The World is on fire. This conflagration is a direct the result of poor leadership by President Biden and VP Harris along with their inability to understand and manage the fundamentals of National Power to our nation’s benefit.
What the United States has yet to understand is that most of the world is getting weary of our meddling in their internal affairs.
The war has been dragging on for seven months; Hamas and Israel are negotiating. This wasn’t ever going to be easy.
Victims included some foreign tourists and hundreds of Israeli soldiers, but the lion’s share of the day’s victims were innocent civilians, ranging in age from infancy to the elderly.
By all appearances, American Democrat party leadership is like a confused gaggle of geese running around in circles honking to the world about who’s in charge
Are you a betting man? As we look at the next six to nine months, as Americans, we know the many possibilities surrounding the coming election.
What do you call an organization that takes billions of dollars in humanitarian aid funds, and invests it in foreign private resorts and bank accounts for its elite leaders instead of improving the lives of the rank and file people under its care?
Today we honor one of the most significant presidents in the history of these United States. John F. DiLeo gives us reflections on the anniversary of the president’s birth…
The calls for a ceasefire are deafening. When should Israel pull out of Gaza and let things return to normal? As with any conflict, the answer depends upon which side you are on.
As Westerners, we tell ourselves that people are fundamentally decent; we convince ourselves that the kind of people who would slaughter families and gang-rape innocent girls simply must be a tiny minority. But we are wrong.