Opinion Forum

Our Foreign Policy Is OK for a Second-rate Nation

January 7th, 2012

By Dan Miller Herds of horses have leaders. They establish dominance by fighting all comers and by protecting the lesser horses within the herd. Eventually, fighting ceases to be necessary. A hard stare, the baring of teeth or even a kicking gesture become sufficient. Only when the dominant horse weakens or a new horse is […]

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Tags: Ahmadinejad, Chavez, foreign policy, Iran, Latin America, Venezuela
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President Obama Is Incompetent and the Unicorns He Rode In on Are Devious

July 26th, 2011

By Dan Miller Unfortunately, he remains the President and the supposed head of the Democrat Party still in control of the Senate. We need to get past the debt limit mess, soon. On July 23rd, as they had on July 22nd and previously, the debt limit talks collapsed yet again with President Obama insisting on […]

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Tags: border, budget, China, debt limit, Latin America, Middle East, satire, unions
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Secretary Clinton Speaks the, er, Truth

May 21st, 2011

By Dan Miller Clinton gives a maddening speech, full of omissions, on Latin America. Secretary Clinton delivered an address on May 11 at the 41st Washington Conference on the Americas. Here are some of its lowlights. Climate Change We Must Believe In [W]e are building flexible multilateral partnerships to help us address the strategic challenges […]

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Tags: corruption, democracy, foreign policy, immigration, Latin America, satire
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Nothing Ever Happens in Latin America

May 10th, 2011

By Dan Miller There is nothing, absolutely nothing to see here. If there were, which of course there isn’t, it would be covered fully and promptly by our ever reliable main stream media. There is nothing of interest or even concern — particularly in Venezuela — because everyone there just speaks Spanish, takes long siestas […]

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Tags: Iran, Latin America, satire, terrorist, toddler, training, TSA, Venezuela
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Osama, Panama, and Venezuela

May 3rd, 2011

By Dan Miller It’s early still, but the reaction in Panama seems to have been friendly to the U.S. Of course, Panama is generally more friendly to the U.S. than is most any other country in the region. Here and here are a couple of articles from la Estrella, a Panamanian newspaper. The comments are […]

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Tags: bin Laden, Brazil, killing, Latin America, Panama, reactions, Venezuela
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