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Embodied in the person of Mayor Zohran Mamdani and candidate, Abdul El Sayed, America is facing the twin threats posed by what some are labeling the Red-Green Alliance. Each man embodies the twin threats to the...
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In my new historical novel, An American Slave in Barbary, The Odyssey of Winston Prescott Jones, a portion of the story is set in the tiny Spanish exclave of Ceuta which was recently overrun by 60,000 Moroccans.
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It’s with dread that Americans now watch the party of JFK unapologetically side with the international left, the Islamists running Iran, and the Maoists running China, and joining them in their hostility toward...
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If you are the leader of a revolutionary movement dedicated to the future overthrow of an existing government, you instinctively welcome all new combatants who wish to join your ranks. The theory goes—you extend this...
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More evidence is surfacing to alert the Iran watchers in the West that the Islamist regime is collapsing. Moreover, when it falls, Iran will become the first a post Islamic state. The significance of this event for...
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Most conservative pundits and politicians agree with Joel Ross who writes, “It appears that Trump folded because the Arabs told him they needed Iran’s attacks to end, and out of fear that a continued closure of the...
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While the world awaits to see if this Middle East peace will hold, there is a strong clue that would lead us to believe that the thugs running the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have surrendered. The clue...
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On Facebook, one can find numerous groups whose titles include "Free Iran". The posts made to these sites are by freedom fighters inside Iran, at grave risk to their lives. Many display signs written in English that...
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Despite the assertions from those who have made it their mission in life to discredit the current leader of the free world, the war with Iran has already made Judeo-Christendom safer from the never-ending attacks by...
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“A belligerent, corrupt dictatorship such as the CCP is most dangerous when it is dying,” Marc Thiessen observed in the aftermath of this mostly uneventful summit. China’s birthrate is far below replacement and is...
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With the remnants of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the US is attempting to negotiate with groups of pre-medievalist Muslim zealots, the armed fragments of the Iranian regime, each vying to take...
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As the summit in Beijing approaches, it is important to note that the prosecution of the war in Iran by America and Israel has exposed a vulnerability in the Chinese military. The inferiority of the Chinese...
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Iran is the last remaining state following Mohammad’s command to conquer the infidel. In that regard, it is worth noting that on September 11, 1683, the army led by the Polish King, Jan Sobiesky, together with the...
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In response to our attack on Iran, we must try to determine what China will do. Now that Vice President Vance has walked out of the talks in Islamabad and Trump has announced a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, it...
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Winston Churchill is among the vast number of historians who have concluded that the war in Europe could have been prevented if Britain and France had acted to stop Hitler before he invaded Czechoslovakia. His...
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After its first month, the bombing campaign conducted against Iran by the United States and Israel has produced some unprecedented “firsts” in the history of human conflict.
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On April 12, 1945, the day Eisenhauer’s Allied Forces liberated Buchenwald, a man who walked out of the German camp under his own power was asked by a reporter what he had learned from the experience. The survivor...
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Amid war news coming from the Middle East, there have been reports of Kurdish military units massing near the Iranian Northern border, preparing to invade the country. In response, retired CIA Director General David...
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The Greek historian Herodotus tells us that Cyrus succeeded to the Persian throne in 559 BC. After conquering numerous neighboring kingdoms, including Media, Bactria. Armenia and Lydia, he conquered Babylonia, whose...
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Shortly before our impending war with Islamist Iran, Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave a speech to European leaders for the ages. Delivered before the Munich Security Conference, his address not only elicited a...
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While the world waits to see what Trump will do about China’s close ally, Iran, it is important to note that Chairman Xi continues to purge his military. Last week, he purged the country’s most senior general, who is...
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As massive crowds of demonstrators fill the streets of Iranian cities, among the buildings on fire are mosques. Why?
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One of the New Year's gifts given to those of us who wish to retain our freedoms is the anti-regime riots that have erupted across Iran. The significance of these riots cannot be overstated. The regime is a junior...
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On Christmas Day, the United States laid down the gauntlet for 2026. If you are an anti-Western, anti-freedom terrorist in ISIS, or Al Qaeda, or Boko Haram, if you are bringing drugs into the US mainland or killing...
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The report on freedom movements inside the autocratic regimes dedicated to the defeat and subjugation of the Judeo-Christian West.
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With the US election over, what will the Mullahs running Iran do now? What will be their response to Israel’s bombardment of their military targets? If Iran attacks Israel directly, it is an unspoken truth—when the...
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ISIS has now lost much of the old section of Mosul, a city it conquered in 2014, to Iraqi coalition forces. In this section of the old city stands the ruin of the al Nuri Grand Mosque built in the 12th century.
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In my first book, published in 2012, I predicted that a future US president may have both the opportunity and the need to partner with the Iranian people to bring down the hated theocratic regime which rules them with an iron fist and which gravely threat
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I recently caught up with Peter to ask him what he thought about the new North Korean nuclear missile crisis.
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On March 5, North Korea simultaneously launched four missiles into Japan’s territorial waters. In his new year’s address, the North’s supreme leader, Kim Jong Un, bragged that his nuclear-armed rogue state would soon...
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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...
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My friend, Amil Imani, is an Iranian born and influential pro-democracy activist whose family escaped Iran during the Islamic revolution of 1979. He is also an apostate and is a fierce critic of Islam. He recently...
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As we are in the final run up toward a presidential election where one of the candidates is arguably guilty of criminal malfeasance and very possibly treason, General Flynn’s new book, The Field of Fight, is an...
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The recent killing of the Taliban Chieftain, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, by a drone inside the Pakistan province of Baluchistan, is a striking reminder that we have entered a futuristic world where war is waged by flying...
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I spoke to Cliff May who is the founder and President of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies which he created immediately following 9/11. FDD today is one of the nation’s most highly regarded national security...
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In speaking with Carly Fiorina, I began by saying, “I’m worried about a knockout blow to the U.S. delivered by what I call the new “Axis of Evil,” that being, Russia, China, North Korea, Iran and their satellites...
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Last Thursday night, October 22, in a daring raid, U.S. Special forces teamed with Kurdish Peshmerga forces and attacked an ISIS controlled prison in Hawijah, just outside the now autonomous Kurdish region of...
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In my book, Lessons from Fallen Civilizations, I developed a list of ten immutable principles which govern the fall of great peoples and which can be seen to repeat over the last three millennia. My Immutable Law 3...
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Just one year ago, on September 10, 2014 Obama said that we would “degrade and ultimately destroy ISIS.” And while Donald Trump’s campaign antics, a plunging stock market and Hillary Clinton’s criminality have...
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With the Iran deal -- the JCPOC (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) -- now being reviewed by Congress, many of us worry that Obama and team will prove to be even worse negotiators than was Neville Chamberlain, the...
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Stephen Hayes and Tom Joscelyn recently reported that after four years of “fierce internecine battles and inexplicable delays,” the intelligence community released a few documents (roughly 100) obtained in the raid...
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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...
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In the wake of the Paris shootings, the horrors visited by ISIS upon Syria and Iraq and the genocide being perpetrated by Boko Haram in North Africa, finally there seems to be an awakening even among the western...
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It is permissible to have sexual intercourse with the female captive. Allah the almighty said, “Successful are the believers who guard their chastity, except from their wives or captives and slaves…for then they are...
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In the face of Obama’s endless decrees that the war with militant al Qaeda was over and his underlying fervent belief that the world would be safer with the U.S. in retreat, his dangerous delusions are now wreaking...
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There is an aphorism which holds that a liberal will undergo a conversion to conservatism on the day after he’s been mugged. While most liberals would find this statement to contain more than a whiff of racism, they...
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Hagel characterized the Islamic State as “beyond just a terrorist group.” “They marry ideology, a sophistication of strategic and tactical military prowess. They are tremendously well-funded. This is beyond anything...
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By 207 B.C., Rome and its allies on the Italian peninsula had lost approximately 100,000 soldiers to the invading armies of the great Carthaginian general, Hannibal. To make matters more desperate, the Carthaginians...
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As the world is horrified to learn that innocent Iraqis, even little girls, are being beheaded and women are being captured as sexual booty by ISIS, one could easily ask, “What inspires such cruelty?” The answer...
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Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in the May 2010 issue ofTownhall Magazine.
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In my previous two articles [part I, part II] in this series I wrote that newly released intelligence, including a highly placed, eye-witness Iranian defector, reveal that the Mullahs running Iran provided planning...
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In my book “Lessons from Fallen Civilizations,” I reference Ken Timmerman in his ground breaking best seller “Countdown to Crisis”:
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Recent news reports and declassified documents show that both the Mullahs running Iran and even some Saudi Royals were not only involved in the planning of 9/11 but both Shiite and Sunni leadership continue to aid...
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In a recent five-part series of columns, I have posed the question, “Why won’t America follow the Egyptian model? That is, as we have recently seen in Egypt, why won’t millions of betrayed, out of work, and or...
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In the same week that the nation watched the Obamacare rollout crash and burn American supremacy in the Middle East continued to implode. Our allies signaled that they had had enough of this president’s relentless...
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Last September 11, 2012, al-Qaeda affiliated jihadists attacked our consulate in Benghazi, killing our ambassador and three others who disobeyed orders to stand down and died trying to defend him and his staff. Yet...
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Tamarod petition calling for Morsi’s resignation. Photo Source: http://goo.gl/FSMVaJ
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By the spring of 47 BC, Cleopatra’s rivals to the Egyptian throne, her brothers, Ptolemy XIII, Pothimus, and Achillas were all dead. Roman legions commanded by the Emperor, Julius Caesar, successfully intervened in...
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Taliban told Obama to concentrate on domestic affairs. Photo source: http://goo.gl/EITH5.
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On August 11, 106 AD, the Roman legions under the Emperor Trajan (98-117 AD), conquered the Kingdom of Dacia, located on the eastern side of the Danube in what is today, Romania. The Romans besieged the capital and...
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In my book, Lessons From Fallen Civilizations, I write:
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In AD 732, exactly one hundred years after Muhammad’s death, Charlemagne’s Grandfather, the Frankish warlord, Charles Martel, stopped the northwestern advance of Islam in the French countryside at a battle fought...
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On May 29, 1453, Constantinople, the last great city of the Eastern Roman Empire, fell to the armies of Turkish Sultan, Mehmet II. A description of that day survives—a diary of a Venetian ship’s doctor, Nicolo...
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Perhaps Hillary Clinton’s now famous outburst, made during her testimony before congress, will do more to end her political career than all her lies and blunders as our Secretary of State combined. One can only hope...
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Good News from Israel; Due to the firestorm of coverage surrounding the massive governmental screw-up that enabled the Boston jihadi attack, there was almost no coverage Hagel’s first trip to Israel. Jewish and...
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On April 18, Joe Kovacs reported for World Net Daily, “… the Saudi national who was the original “person of interest”( identified as 20-year-old Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi) in connection with Monday’s Boston Marathon...
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Thanks to the editors of the Wall Street Journal’s Opinion page, we learned this week that our esteemed Secretary of State, John Kerry, was reduced to begging Iraqi officials to “search Iranian flights that fly over...
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In my book, Lessons from Fallen Civilizations, the subtitle poses a stark question; Can a Bankrupt America Survive the Current Islamic Threat? So frequently do we see headlines such as, Car Bomb at Mosque Kills 37 or...
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I wrote in my book Lessons From Fallen Civilizations,For over a millennium, since the time when Muhammad’s seventh-century successors first rode out of the Arabian Peninsula; Islam waged constant war against the...
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Despite American objections, 138 countries including many of our supposedly closest European allies, voted in the UN to recognize the Palestinian territories as a “non-member observer state,” the same status accorded...
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Despite the announcement of a cease fire, an indisputable outcome of our recent presidential election is that a slim majority of Americans have effectively told Israel, “You’re on your own.” The Obama voters issued...
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Shortly after the fall of Mubarak, on February 11, 2011, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu was quoted as saying, “No one knows what the future in Egypt will bring.” With the departure of Mubarak, a...
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Yesterday Mitt Romney unveiled his plan to make the country energy independent by 2020. In the summation of my book, Lessons from Fallen Civilizations, I predicted that by the eve of this election, the American...
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My friend, Nonie Darwish, is an author, speaker, and a courageous advocate in the cause to prevent Islam from realizing its stated goal—that being, the gradual subversion and ultimate conquest of the West. On her two...
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While the transnational left-wing media would love to do so, discrediting Israel’s conservative Prime Minister, Bibi Netanyahu, is more than problematic.
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As this President and his party preside over the decline of our economy, the country’s ability to influence events which impact its vital interests and national security continues to wane. The utter pointlessness of...
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"The notion that my White House would purposely release classified national security information is offensive. It's wrong." — President Obama.
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Last week’s talks with the Iranians ended badly. The Iranians actually hardened their position. Instead of agreeing to shut down uranium enrichment at its new underground facility at Fordo, a facility which they...
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One of the lesser understood phenomenon of history is that small ruthless bands of thugs will inevitably take over vastly larger docile civilizations, the operative words being ruthless and civilized. The civilized...
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(An excerpt) ...During the winter of AD 408-409, (the barbarian chieftain) Alaric, and his invading barbarian army once again moved north into the Italian peninsula. The army swarmed and pillaged its way south until...
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In my forthcoming book, Lessons from Fallen Civilizations, I note that no people untouched by the ancient Greeks ever came up with the notion that the many should rule the few. Based on our founding, we are the...
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With America’s withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan and mounting tensions between Iran, Israel, and the US as a backdrop, James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, testified before Congress that, given the...
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President Bush, the Younger, made the observation that conducting American foreign policy in the brand new war-torn 21st century was as difficult as playing chess in three dimensions. Now with the escalation of...
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As you watch the United States Congress and the Obama administration lurch toward the financial collapse of the American economy, and as the international credit rating agencies are poised to downgrade the US. AAA...
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On Sunday May 1, the night that President Obama announced to the world the elimination of bin Laden, he was adamant in asserting, “We’re not now nor will we ever be at war with Islam.” This unsolicited statement must...
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This week two suicide bombers from Jundallah (army of God), the Sunni separatists in Iran’s southeastern province Baluchistan blew up a Shiite religious procession killing 39. Relative to this, in April of 2007, I...
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UPDATE: August 2, 2010 This article has been posted online at Townhall Magazine. It was first published in the May 2010 print issue. I welcome your comments here also.
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Ollie North Vividly Portrays the American Heroes
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Kenneth Timmerman’s new book, Shadow Warriors: The Untold Story of Traitors, Saboteurs, and the Party of Surrender, is a potent assault on the enemy within. The late great U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Jeanne...
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Edward Gibbon, perhaps the preeminent historian of the second millennium, in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, wrote that Mohammed had “no more than 17 wives: 11 enumerated and who occupied at Medina their...
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News coming from Iran these days runs the gamut from the specter of the terrorist/rogue state poised to acquire nuclear weapons to the hopeful defection and disappearance of one of its top military men, Gen. Ashgari...
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About the Afghani Northern Alliance fighters and Western Military
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Can anyone imagine Ronald Reagan appointing a blue-ribbon panel, partly comprised of his political enemies, and ordering it to produce a report that would tell him how to deal with the Soviet Union? Perhaps the most...
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More and more Iranians, especially the young, have had enough of this barbarity.
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By 1428, what remained of free France seemed doomed to become another vassal province of England. All French lands north of the Loire River had been lost with Burgundian and Parisian soldiers now fighting on the side...
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Throughout the 1930s, although he been a popular war hero, author, Lord of the Admiralty and had held numerous cabinet ministries, Winston Churchill, remained a “back bencher” barely holding on to his seat in the...
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With the bombings in London providing a backdrop, it’s important to note that just last year, the U.S. State Department named Iran as the most active sponsor of terrorism. And with the sham election and elevation of...
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On a September morning in 490 B.C., 9,000 free citizen soldiers from Athens watched the 26,000 Persians, disembarking their ships that were beached beside the plain of Marathon. On the bluffs above, the Athenian...
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Can there be anything more sacred or more defining for a Kerry-voting liberal than the certain knowledge that our war in Viet Nam was evil? Yet in a remarkable twist of fate, the Kerry campaign continues to compel us...
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There are strong indications that the US is moving five carrier battle groups to the Eastern Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf. This will spell a formidable strike force for Iran and Syria who are in defiance on...
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Not since the end Viet Nam conflict in the 1970s, have Americans witnessed, with some prominent exceptions, the majority of U.S. news organizations actively and openly attempting to undermine a U.S. war effort. As...
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Mohammad al-Asi of the Islamic Education Center in Potomac, Maryland,
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Ms. Ryan – In response to your distinctly disingenuous plea (editorial page, Sept. 29th) for straight answers to the questions posed by President Bush’s embrace of preemption, unilateralism, and reckless militarism...
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