Dear Chief Secretary, I’m afraid to tell you there’s no money left – Outgoing Labour Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Liam Byrne, to his successor, David Laws Trying to make sense of the growing financial crisis in Europe is like attempting to explain the Tim Tebow phenomenon in the United States. It’s simple yet complicated. [...]
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Foreward In light of President Obama and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s recent remarks regarding the new face of the American military, I felt that a look back into the successes and failures of the last decade could shed some truth on an increasingly complicated matter. Gone are the days of ambitious nation-building and an aggressive commitment to spread the American [...]
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As NATO and the United States begin to transfer the remaining military responsibilities to national governments in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the presidential election approaches, I can’t help but think where geo-political and military conflict will take us in the years to come. Although some may stick to what they hear on CNN about ongoing [...]
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The civil war in Libya has been dragging on for way too long. With the superior firepower of NATO forces, a supposedly successful “No Fly Zone” and a strong militia on the ground, why haven’t we been able to stop Muammar Gaddafi? The answer is more complicated than it looks: politics. The United States has [...]
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It looks like my recent commentary, “Libya and the Hypocrisy of the American Left”, touched a nerve with one of my colleagues. Unfortunately, Mr. Grau’s eloquent rebuttal still exhibits the same flawed thinking as I identified in my original post. What Progressives cannot avoid, despite their best efforts, is that A is A. Gertrude Stein [...]
Continue Reading →“Mission Accomplished.” – George W. Bush We find ourselves in a situation far different than we did on the morning of March 19th, 2003. We are not on the verge of a protracted land war in a country that does not want us there. We do not have hundreds of billions of dollars in weapons [...]
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