The Shotgun and Rewriting History
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 ...
Syria’s Three (3) Bad Guys Exposed
There were always two bad guys in Syria, ever since the Assad family took over the Ba'ath Party and created a military dictatorship in 1970. Hafez al-Assad ruled Syria until he died in 2000....
Self-Radicalize; When You Don’t Have Anything Better to Do
(Photo: Ahmed Khan Rahami, 29, convicted in October 2017 of the September 2016 New York City and New Jersey bombings, injuring 30).
In 1992 I took an overnight train from Moscow to Ukraine, with an...
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...
If It Sneaks in the Night like a Raid, and Targets Like a Raid
It's a raid. Dammit.
And not a war.
A raid is designed to achieve a limited objective. Raids are not impetuous, born of anger or moral indignation...so no, Ivanka seeing children dead from gas did not...
Where is Matt? After a Decade’s Slide into Darkness (Revised)
Matt Harding was born in 1976, a Gen-Xer (1965-1980). That Generation is just as apt to cling to the old ways and standards of their parents (Baby Boomers, 1942-1964) as they are to become utterly nouveau, knowing little, if anything about the shoulders they...