Liberty's Torch

(a.k.a. Bastion Of Liberty)

"Keep clear of the dupes that talk democracy,
And the dogs that bark revolution.
Drunk with talk, liars and believers.
I believe in my tusks.
Long live freedom and damn the ideologies!"
(Robinson Jeffers)

Showing posts with label war. Show all posts

Showing posts with label war. Show all posts

Thursday, October 8, 2026

Predictions Old And New

I think I’ve mentioned here, or perhaps at Eternity Road of loving memory, that I was once deeply immersed in international strategic ...

Friday, July 31, 2026

Out Of Uniform

This morning, Black Dumpling, a uniquely intelligent and provocative X poster, asks this critical question: This is the question. If a...

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Envy And Enmity

Now and then, there’s a hard but necessary deed to be done. Since World War II, the doer has been the United States of America. A...

Sunday, March 29, 2026

Martial Spirit And The Martial Virtues

Just this morning I encountered this: The United States has been at war 233 of its 250 years. That's 93% of its entire existences ...

Saturday, February 28, 2026

On The Road Again

That’s America. On the road and making music. Just like Willie Nelson. Though I don’t recall Willie deploying aircraft carriers or F-18...

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

For Armistice Day

[I first posted this in 2013, when it appeared to me that the world was hurtling toward Armageddon. We survived; we eventually shook of...

Monday, January 6, 2020

War And Its Law

Amid all the caterwauling from the Left about how awful it was that President Trump dared to execute Qassem Soleimani, the most fatuous...

Monday, November 11, 2019

A Lost Commemoration

If you’ve ever taken an interest in what was once called “The Great War” – it’s unlikely you have, as very few persons seem to know any...

Tuesday, October 8, 2019

The Wherefores Of Warfare

President Trump’s recent decision to pull American forces out of Syria has the Punditocracy in a lather. “We can’t betray our allies!”...

Monday, May 27, 2019

A Proper Memorial

Notwithstanding the quibbling over the differences among “wars,” “police actions,” and “operations,” here is a partial list of the mili...

Sunday, March 17, 2019

Daggers

I once referred to myself as Irish-American. Then I ran across this statement by Theodore Roosevelt: “The one absolutely certain ...

Wednesday, February 27, 2019

The Original Dream

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

Thursday, April 12, 2018

Hard Cases Make Bad Foreign Policy

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

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