While considering the political theater of our leaders in the Washington “swamp” deciding by week’s end on whether for the 18th time since 1976 the congress “shuts down the government,” consider implications of two more events last week: 1) President Trump again kicked the can for another 120 days on deciding to end the terrible Iran Deal; and 2) The False Alarm in Hawaii that all should contemplate. Read Full Story
Seven-and-a-half years of the Obama administration’s “Leading from Behind,” “Strategic Patience” and whatever is its label for its current failing policies have created a leadership vacuum in international affairs that are regressing into more dangerous postures than those that characterized the “Cold War” that dominated the second half of the 20th century. And we have no countervailing strategy, worth the name, for dealing with today’s existential threats to Western Civilization. Read Full Story
“I agree with the intel community that we assess that they [the North Koreans] have the ability, they have the weapons, and they have the ability to miniaturize those weapons, and they have the ability to put them on a rocket that can range the [U.S.] homeland.” ~ Adm. William Gortney, Northcom Commander, responsible for defending the United States from long-range missile attack, in an October 8, 2015 address to the Atlantic Council. Read Full Story
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