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This category documents a train wreck and a tragedy. After World War II the world looked to the United States for leadership. Now we have no leadership and the world knows it. We can no longer approach national security from a position of power because our power is slipping. Nowhere is that more obvious than how we are conducting our foreign affairs.

Proliferation and nuclear acting out by North Korea, and threats from Iran’s nuclear program signaled America’s weakened role as a world leader. Vladimir Putin tested us over Syria’s chemical weapons and Edward Snowden’s asylum. We lost both times. Iraq is slipping into Islamic oblivion as the U.S. refuses to shore up its defenses and the world contemplates whether dividing the country by sects is the best approach. Is this strategy something the White House will feel comfortable explaining to families who lost members to the Iraq war?

Foreign policy in the Middle East under Obama has not fostered democracy. It has only led to more bad behavior from Islamic extremists as the hopes of the Arab Spring prove time and again to be a fraud. Was buying into nation-building in the Muslim world and trying to negotiate with Iran worth compromising our relationship with Israel, our only completely trustworthy ally in the region and a friend on the world stage whose loyalty we will never have to question?

National security and foreign affairs are about more than the Middle East. China is a much more powerful adversary than troublemakers in North Africa. The Asian superpower is intent on cyber penetrations of our private sector intellectual property and public sector military secrets. As China grows as an economic power and U.S. debt grows along with it, our ability to negotiate favorable outcomes from disputes lessens.

There was a time when America apologized for nothing. Now it seems we apologize for almost everything other countries find fault with, from foreign policy to an American-made video that riled Muslims and led to a televised apology from Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on Pakistani television. Is this the future of foreign affairs for America, finding fault with ourselves when other nations act out, compromising our national security by projecting weakness and insecurity?

U.S. Adversaries: Emerging Threats Come From Politicians

Last update December 23, 2018Leave a Comment

U.S. adversaries and the emerging threats they create span the globe. Their identities don’t change much from year to year, but their ability to do harm grows while the politicians who run our government dictate responses that best suits their needs. Sometimes these responses are well thought out and sound. Sometimes they are purely political and make no sense.

Filed Under: National Security and Foreign Affairs Tagged With: Democrats, Donald Trump

TSA Report: New Shocker Proves We Need That Muslim Ban

Last update July 26, 2017Leave a Comment

Homeland Security must dread the release of new Government Accountability Office reports. The federal watchdog has a habit of finding chinks in the armor of agency plans to stop the bad guys. Past highlights include security technology problems at the border and trouble monitoring potentially dangerous flight school attendees post-9/11.

Filed Under: National Security and Foreign Affairs

Offending Religion of Killers is a Political Problem

Last update June 8, 2017Leave a Comment

World leaders did what they do best in the wake of the London attacks. They made trite assurances of unity, perseverance, and shared values. The very same remarks will be made after the next attack and the one after that. The war of words over something we know the name for only avoids facing the truth for the sake of not offending the religion of the killers.

Filed Under: National Security and Foreign Affairs Tagged With: Islam

Atrocities are Humanity’s Choice. U.S. Can’t Stop Them.

Last update April 8, 2017Leave a Comment

NOTE: Shortly after this post was published President Trump announced U.S. action against Syria. An update follows.

In the great scheme of humanity the Syrian gas attack victims are already forgotten. The parade of atrocities big and small over the ages will march on.

Filed Under: National Security and Foreign Affairs

Armageddon: Nuclear Destruction Plan Far Too Expensive

Last update March 8, 2017Leave a Comment

There must be a payoff to Armageddon that we aren’t clever enough to understand. America spends an insane amount of money on our plan for nuclear destruction. We compete with other players for global control, but the contest for who pays for the best doomsday weapons has only two possible outcomes: the money is wasted or humanity is vaporized.

Filed Under: National Security and Foreign Affairs Tagged With: Putin

9/11 Dead Dishonored by Clinton’s Deplorable Divisiveness

Last update September 22, 2016Leave a Comment

When did Hillary Clinton realize that she made a big mistake by publicly venting her hatred for millions of Americans because they don’t agree with her politics and aren’t going to vote for her? Did the shock come right after she said the words that will haunt her for the rest of the campaign?

Filed Under: National Security and Foreign Affairs Tagged With: Hillary Clinton

Trump’s Anti-Muslim Comments are Smart, Stupid

Last update May 17, 2016Leave a Comment

It took Donald Trump to show how doubters, cowards, and appeasers control the dialogue of our war on terror. Even conservative British Prime Minister David Cameron took a turn throwing a few potshots at Trump’s supposedly anti-Muslim comments.

We can cut Cameron a little slack.

Filed Under: National Security and Foreign Affairs Tagged With: Donald Trump

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