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Memo to Trump: Can’t We Learn from the Roman Model?

While the world is focused on the upcoming meeting between President Trump and dictator, Kim Jung Un, attention on what Iran, North Korea’s closest ally, is doing is absent from the front-page news coverage. Count me among those who were appalled by the eight years of the Neville Chamberlain-like appeasement model peddled around the globe by the Obama administration. President Trump, we are greatly heartened by your total reversal of such a failed approach to foreign policy. But can we please have a more serious and consistent approach to the Middle East and especially now in Syria?

By | 2018-05-09T07:35:02-07:00 May 9th, 2018|News From the Front, Townhall Magazine, United States of America|Comments Off on Memo to Trump: Can’t We Learn from the Roman Model?
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Trump’s Pivot in Afghanistan – A Reality Check

Now President Trump, in what was his most lauded speech since he announced his run for president, has committed an unspecified number of new soldiers to the fight and the United States to a new strategy in Afghanistan.  Inevitably, his critics on the left and even some on the right questioned the wisdom of this, given that the sixteen-year Afghan campaign makes it America’s longest war and one that we’ve lost because roughly 50% of the country is now in the hands of our enemies.

By | 2017-08-30T13:10:08-07:00 August 30th, 2017|Islam, Islam and the West, News From the Front, Resurgent Islam, United States of America, War on Terror|Comments Off on Trump’s Pivot in Afghanistan – A Reality Check
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Is John Bolton the Difference Trump Needs?

Bolton proposes, in what could be read as a letter to the Trump Administration, a way-forward after the defeat of ISIS.  While his recommendations are fraught with peril, they are, in my opinion, irrefutably correct.

By | 2017-07-11T10:42:58-07:00 July 11th, 2017|Islam, Islam and the West, News From the Front, Resurgent Islam, United States of America, War on Terror|2 Comments
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Cleaning Up Obama’s Wartime Messes – 5 Moves Trump Can Make to Succeed

In early April of this year, at a joint news conference with King Abdullah of Jordan, Trump said Syria is now his responsibility, added that Syria had crossed "more than a red line," and that he inherited a worldwide mess and intended to fix it. Predictably, this caused the “destroy-Trump” media, from CNN to the [...]

By | 2017-08-30T06:46:01-07:00 June 6th, 2017|News From the Front, Published Articles, Townhall Magazine, United States of America, War on Terror|Comments Off on Cleaning Up Obama’s Wartime Messes – 5 Moves Trump Can Make to Succeed
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A New Kurdistan and an Islamic Reformation

In my new book, Lessons from Fallen Civilizations, Vol. II, - The Way Forward, I report that the nearly autonomous Kurds of Northern Iraq, have not only exhibited great heroism in driving ISIS out of the towns and cities near their homeland but have made enormous strides in bringing about the coming Islamic reformation. I [...]

By | 2017-04-25T05:56:35-07:00 April 25th, 2017|blogroll, Islam, News From the Front, Resurgent Islam|2 Comments
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Hope Builds for the Coming Muslim Reformation

The historian and theologian, Father Richard Neuhaus, opined that the difficulty for today’s Muslims is that Mohammad is the only founder of a major modern religion whose life falls within an era of pedigreed historical inquiry. Islam’s spectacular spread was brought about by brutal military conquest, rapine, spoliation, and slavery. Its culture was derived from [...]

By | 2017-03-10T07:52:20-07:00 March 10th, 2017|blogroll, Civilization History, Islam, Islam and the West, News From the Front, United States of America|Comments Off on Hope Builds for the Coming Muslim Reformation
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The Dangers Facing Trump and Those He Will Govern

On inauguration day, due to his predecessor’s many foreign policy failures, Donald Trump will inherit a much more dangerous world than the one Barack Obama inherited eight years previously. Despite the fact that Obama pledged to end America’s wars, the US is waging three active wars, Iraq/Syria, Afghanistan, and a worldwide fight against jihadis that [...]

By | 2017-02-28T07:31:04-07:00 December 9th, 2016|blogroll, News From the Front, Presidential Election, Published Articles, Townhall Magazine, United States of America|Comments Off on The Dangers Facing Trump and Those He Will Govern
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Hillary Lied While People Died, Hence She’s Also Unfit for Command

Myriad scandals now engulf the Clinton campaign. There is the destruction of her private email server and thousands of emails, her profiteering from the sale of American uranium to the Russians, and the huge donations to her sham foundation from foreign countries during her tenure as Secretary of State. But it’s also worth remembering that [...]

By | 2017-02-28T07:31:05-07:00 May 20th, 2015|News From the Front, Townhall Magazine|Comments Off on Hillary Lied While People Died, Hence She’s Also Unfit for Command
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Create a New Kurdistan and Destabilize Iran (Part III)

The U.S. now needs a free and stable ally in Kurdistan which can supply basing rights, intelligence, logistical support, and trained military personnel to successfully prosecute this new phase in the West’s war with militant Islam. Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel andMartin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently held a Pentagon briefing [...]

By | 2017-02-28T07:31:06-07:00 September 15th, 2014|Islam and the West, News From the Front, Townhall Magazine|Comments Off on Create a New Kurdistan and Destabilize Iran (Part III)
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