Showing posts with label foreign policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label foreign policy. Show all posts
Saturday, December 6, 2025

One Lemon Leads To Another Dept.

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     There are many things I could say about foreign aid, but the great majority of them are obscene. If we start from the premise that usi...
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Monday, November 3, 2025

Could We, Should We Dept.

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     Actor Kevin Sorbo asks:      Muslim militants post selfies with thousands of dead civilians after conquering major Sudanese city! So...
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Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Ultra-Quickies: There Is One Popular Commentator, At Least

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     ...who has eyes that see:      One beef about Ambassador to Germany Ric Grenell (he’ll stay on in that critical job while acting DNI...
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Friday, December 6, 2019

Quickies: Snark, Grandmaster Level

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     I have a special admiration for persons who can cheese off their adversaries with well-honed facetious sarcasm: i.e., snark. I’m not al...
Friday, November 15, 2019

A Distribution Of Motives

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     It’s commonplace for private-citizen observers of political squabbles to assume a uniformity of motives on each of the contending side...
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Wednesday, February 27, 2019

The Original Dream

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     I found this on Gab and had to steal it:      That was the original idea. George Washington himself said so: “Steer clear of perman...
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Sunday, May 27, 2018

Negotiations And Dogs

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     “You can always get an agreement if you’re willing to give enough away.” – Robert Dole, formerly U.S. Senator from Kansas      Among ...
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Thursday, April 12, 2018

Hard Cases Make Bad Foreign Policy

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     It’s commonplace to hear or read pronouncements – sometimes elaborate ones that amount to proposed replacements – on an administration’...
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Thursday, January 25, 2018

Quickies: Something To Cheer About

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     The international political scene has been short of “Hip hip, hooray!” moments in recent years. It appears one has just been delivered...
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Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Alliances

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     It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world....There can be no greater error than...
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Saturday, May 20, 2017

Baksheesh: An Addendum

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     With regard to this morning’s essay. Military / SF writer Tom Kratman has graciously supplied the following snippet from his novel Cou...

Yet Another Hand Out For Baksheesh

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     “Ev'ry one's got something      And they're out tryin' to get some more.”      (Randy Newman.)      Seldom are fore...
Thursday, April 13, 2017

Predictability: Threat Or Menace?

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     Yes, the title is a counter-riff on this old National Lampoon cover:      ...but what of that. Of course I’m thinking about the geos...
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Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Quickies: An America-First Foreign Policy

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     One of the few things about Donald Trump’s candidacy that I wholeheartedly approve is his embrace of the “America First” attitude towar...
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Saturday, January 16, 2016

It’s Even Worse Than We Thought

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     First we were told it was merely a “demonstration” over a YouTube video that got out of hand. Then we were told that there was no one t...
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Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Quickies: KISS Off Dept.

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     The Wall Street Journal boasts some fine editorial work. However, even an insightful article can contain a clinker or two:      Today...
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Saturday, October 3, 2015

Quickies: Words Fail Me Dept.

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     Over the years, several persons have alleged, sometimes with evidence of variable quality adduced, that Barack Hussein Obama is actuall...
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Thursday, October 1, 2015

The Old World Order

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     In his book America Alone, Mark Steyn refers to the United States as “the non-imperial superpower:” the first nation to rise to preemi...
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Friday, July 24, 2015

The Ceremony Of Innocence

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     The slowly emerging details about the supposed “deal” with Iran over its nuclear program are becoming ever more incredible. Consider th...
Thursday, July 16, 2015

Quickies: The Deal And The Future

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     Everyone and his halfwit cousin Harley has expressed an opinion of some sort about the “deal” with Iran, so I suppose it’s my turn.   ...
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