From an old grizzled veteran (my age) named Mike, who contributed a lot of wisdom to our Veterans’Tales site for a few years: You’re asleep when you hear a thump outside your bedroom door. Half-awake, and nearly paralyzed with fear, you hear…
Category: Muslim Brotherhood
In Celebration of the Neocons
In 2004, awaiting a vote in the newly liberated Iraq, their first democratic vote ever, I wrote my first published essay, “Prospects for Democracy in the Middle East”, a 5500 word opus, and a pro-Iraq War website published it. (I think…
Christianity and the Changing Face of Islam since 2001
I published a short reminder in 2001 about the generational differences between the people who had to confront the killers of 9/11 and those who had to deal with the alliance who attacked Pearl Harbor and almost succeeded in destroying the Jewish race. That…
Trade Brinksmanship, not Trade War, versus Globalism
“Trade War” is a term the enemies of Donald Trump use to denigrate his proposals for restoring a balance to American trade policies. Only it’s not “trade war” but trade brinkmanship, which, as it was first used to define JFK’s strategy against the USSR…
20 Year Olds in Iran keep a Freedom Torch Alive Thought Extinguished 40 Years Ago
20 year-old Iranians are taking to the streets demanding a return of freedoms that were taken away almost 40 years ago, long before they were born. How did they know? Who told them? Meanwhile, many of America’s best and brightest,…