The Tortured Legacy of the Mexican-American War, Part 6 by Danny Sjursen September 1, 2020 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.… the fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force.… She might become the dictatress of the world.
NATO’s “Unified Front” at Breaking Point by Danny Sjursen August 14, 2020 Last month, a Turkish warship came one step away from firing missiles at a French naval vessel off the coast of Libya. In response, Paris suspended its involvement in Operation Sea Guardian — a multinational maritime effort to provide security in the Mediterranean Sea and halt the arms trafficking fueling Libya’s ongoing civil war. Initially, only eight ...
The Tortured Legacy of the Mexican-American War, Part 4 by Danny Sjursen July 1, 2020 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 Our militia & volunteers, if a tenth of what is said to be true, have committed atrocities — horrors — in Mexico, sufficient to make Heaven weep, & every American, of Christian morals, blush for his country. — Gen. Winfield ...
The Tortured Legacy of the Mexican-American War, Part 3 by Danny Sjursen June 1, 2020 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States, has invaded our territory, and shed American blood upon American soil. War exists, and notwithstanding all our efforts to avoid it, exists by the act of Mexico herself. — ...
Trump: I Can and Will Start Wars Whenever I Please by Michael Tennant May 26, 2020 President Donald Trump’s May 6 veto of a Senate resolution that would have required him to seek congressional approval for any further military confrontations with Iran demonstrates that, despite his occasional feints toward scaling back foreign intervention, Trump is as much a warmonger as anyone else in Washington. Worse still, his explanation for his veto indicates that he believes ...
The Tortured Legacy of the Mexican-American War, Part 2 by Danny Sjursen May 1, 2020 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 The Constitution was, and is, emphatic on one matter, at least: only Congress possesses the power to declare war. In the 1840s, an era of legislative preeminence, even the high-risk Tyler blanched, aware that the agreement exceeded his authority. ...
Impeachment Reminder of Our Toxic Foreign Aid by James Bovard April 1, 2020 Foreign aid to Ukraine helped spur the Democrats’ effort to impeach and remove President Trump earlier this year. Ukraine was supposed to be on the verge of great progress until Trump pulled the rug out from under the heroic salvation effort by U.S. government bureaucrats. Unfortunately, Congress has devoted a hundred times more attention to the timing of aid ...
The Tortured Legacy of the Mexican-American War, Part 1 by Danny Sjursen April 1, 2020 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 I had a horror of the Mexican War ... only I had not the moral courage enough to resign. — Ulysses S. Grant (1879) The phrase “regime change wars” has, of late, taken on profound meaning and stoked massive controversy. ...
The Impeachment Hearings Inadvertently Show the Insidious Nature of U.S. Foreign Policy by Laurence M. Vance February 11, 2020 Although many Americans may not know what a quid pro quo is, any American would have to be living under a rock not to know that House Democrats impeached President Donald Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress stemming, they alleged, from his temporarily delaying the release of U.S. military aid to Ukraine to pressure the Ukrainian ...
Unleashing the Dogs of War by Matthew Harwood February 1, 2020 Presidents of War by Michael Beschloss (New York: Crown, 2018); 752 pages. Even with power in the hands of a political philosopher and statesman who understood the rabid nature of war, President James Madison couldn’t help but embroil the young nation in a conflict it wasn’t ready for. Unlike Thomas Jefferson, his ...
U.S. Foreign-Policy Perpetual Perfidy by James Bovard January 1, 2020 The Washington establishment was aghast in October when Donald Trump appeared to approve a Turkish invasion of northern Syria. The United States was seen as abandoning the Kurds, some of whom had assisted the United States in the fight against ISIS and other terrorist groups. But the indignation over the latest U.S. policy shift in the Middle East is ...
Wake-Up Call On The Syrian Border by David Stockman October 23, 2019 Syria has been turned into the most wretched of neighborhoods on the planet by Washington’s neocons and liberal interventionists. From its pre-2011 population of 23 million, more than 6.7 million have fled to countries such as Lebanon (1 million), Jordan (700,000), Turkey (3.6 million), Europe and elsewhere. At the same time, more than 6.5 million Syrians are internal refugees, driven ...