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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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Behind North Korea Lurks Iran, China, Russia, and All Militant Islam

Today our enemies are many and diverse, composed of Asian dictators and stateless Muslim terrorists. And they are unified in their long-sought goal of conquering the West. Has this suddenly changed? 

By | 2017-08-09T06:31:00-07:00 August 7th, 2017|Iran, Islam, Islam and the West, Islam History, News From the Front, North Korea, Nuclear Iran, Resurgent Islam, United States of America, War on Terror|1 Comment
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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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Let the Jihadis’ Civil War Rage

The historian Tacitus recorded an event where a first century Roman general, stationed in Gaul on the west side of the Rhine, witnessed a massive battle between two waring German tribes which left thousands of dead across the river.

By | 2017-06-19T11:15:08-07:00 June 14th, 2017|Civilization History, Islam, Islam and the West, News From the Front, Resurgent Islam, Rome, War on Terror|1 Comment
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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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Trump’s Unchained Military

I write in Lessons from Fallen Civilizations, Vol. II, “In 2009, upon his release from Camp Bucca, Iraq, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the future sultan of ISIS, said to his American captors, ‘I’ll see you guys in New York City.’” In a week when most Americans were primarily focused on North Korea and the three-front war [...]

By | 2017-04-19T08:31:08-07:00 April 19th, 2017|blogroll, News From the Front, United States of America|Comments Off on Trump’s Unchained Military
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Grief in the Disappearing Christian Middle East

On April 8, I attended a wedding reception where I was seated next to an attendee who felt the need to let me know my views regarding resurgent militant Islam were, in his view, misguided. Given that we all know about the Inquisition, the Crusades, the Hundred Years War and all the other myriad sins [...]

By | 2017-04-12T17:45:03-07:00 April 12th, 2017|blogroll, News From the Front, Resurgent Islam, United States of America|Comments Off on Grief in the Disappearing Christian Middle East
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I Fear for My Country

Count me among those who fear that the current struggle over whether this nation will allow sanctuary cities to flourish and multiply or abolish them threatens to be the single impetus which will escalate into our second civil war. Illegal sanctuary jurisdictions now number over 500. Under Obama, they were encouraged to spread like a [...]

By | 2017-04-06T12:32:30-07:00 April 6th, 2017|blogroll, News From the Front, United States of America|Comments Off on I Fear for My Country
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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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