Opinion Forum

The Latest Farewell to Fighting Wars in Asia

February 28th, 2011

By Jan Barry “Any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should ‘have his head examined,’ as General [Douglas] MacArthur so delicately put it.” There’s a quote for the history books, broadcast last week at the US Military […]

Articles written by Jan Barry
Tags: Afghanistan, Asia, defense secretary, Gates, Iraq, Middle East, USMA, war
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Real Threats or Just More North Korean Saber Rattling?

February 28th, 2011

By Dan Miller As noted in How About Adding a North Korea Crisis to the Mix? published on February 26th, the DPRK is showing multiple stress points — at least some news of revolts in Arab Lands has become available domestically, food shortages seem to be worsening and there have been limited popular protests. Meanwhile, […]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: conflict, DPRK, foreign policy, Middle East, military exercises, North Korea
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How About Adding a North Korea Crisis to the Mix?

February 26th, 2011

By Dan Miller Things on the peninsula are getting ever more dire, and we know the President won’t act with any urgency. With much of the rest of the world — Egypt, Iran, Libya, and others — in escalating turmoil and with other potential hot spots getting hotter, events on the Korean peninsula may well […]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: conflict, DPRK, foreign policy, incompetence, Middle East, North Korea
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Dithering Won’t Keep the Peace

February 15th, 2011

By Dan Miller Not even ObamaCare can cover the harm the president has done to national health. President Obama is driving a badly maintained car with defective brakes, no steering wheel and a stuck accelerator; he can’t see the cliff up ahead because it’s night and the headlights are broken too. He is in trouble. […]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: Arab, Churchill, Egypt, foreign policy, Iran, Middle East, Obama, World War I
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Implications of the Revolution in Tunisia

January 17th, 2011

By Tom Carter We should be paying closer attention to the revolution going on right now in Tunisia. Assuming, of course, that U.S. media can tear themselves away from the most important story of they day — the responsibility of Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh for the Arizona shooting. In what appears to be a […]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Ben Ali, corruption, Egypt, Middle East, oppression, revolution, Tunisia
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