Military

In 1821, John Quincy Adams famously said, about the United States: Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to... »

Do you remember the FedEx commercial, where a clerk, in response to his boss’s complaint about shipping costs, says “why don’t we use FedEx?”  The commercial follows the employee from his early days at the company through to retirement, where, at every opportunity, he... »

As Trump’s “sad fool,” Charles Krauthammer, rightly points out, the Obama administration has abdicated American leadership because of its fear of being unliked.  Ryan Lizza points out in the New Yorker, Obama “came of age” during the post-Reagan, Cold War era.  (One has to... »

Mark Twain once said that history might not repeat itself, but it does often rhyme. And so we find ourselves with another Democratic president playing compassionate emperor. Please don’t get me wrong–I think we should have gone into Libya long before Obama “mobilized the... »

Obama has decided to call the action in Libya a “kinetic military action,” rather than use the more comprehensible English term: war. When it’s planes in the sky, bombing all day and all night, That’s linguistics. When the tanks form a line Bullets whiz... »

Before Obama won election in 2008, a typically frank Joe Biden had this to say to supporters of his then candidacy: “Mark my words, it will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is... »

Imagine for a moment, that the year is 2024.  Hugo Chavez has spread his Marxist, dictatorial infection from Venezuela through Mexico.  One by one, each country fell and the infection spread.  Honduras fell first, its courts and military, knowing they had no help coming... »

This stark contrast is all you need to know about Obama’s foreign policy.  It is the reason our allies like Brazil and Turkey have hedged their bets by softening their position on Iran.  It is why America has not been weaker than it is... »

Almost five years ago, on June 28, 2005, four Navy SEALs were tasked with killing or capturing a Taliban leader, Ahmad Shah (also known as Mohammad Ismail or  “Sharmak”) in the mountainous Hindu-Kush region of Afghanistan. The counter-insurgency operation was named Operation Red Wing.... »