State Department confronts Middle East reality *Since 1978/79, notwithstanding Iran’s anti-US terrorism, drug trafficking and proliferation of advanced military systems, the State Department has persisted in its suspension of disbelief, as reflected by the diplomatic option, which has bolstered Iran’s anti-US rogue operations, increasingly in Latin America. The diplomatic option assumes that…
For those who are not taught such things anymore, the traditional motto of the United States is “In God We Trust,” but the motto on the Great Seal of our nation is “E Pluribus Unum,” – Latin for ‘Out of Many, One’…circa 1782. There was a time when differing political opinions…
Either the ruling elite comes to heel and abandons their misbegotten philosophies of life and government and comes back to reality, or they risk further descending our country into what can only be civil war or dissolution Spring is in the air. The weather is getting milder by…
News that the U.S. will build a “temporary pier” in the Mediterranean Sea to facilitate transfer of humanitarian aid to the Hamas-occupied Gaza Strip should tickle the déjà vu receptors of anyone who was politically aware at the dawn of the 21st century. After the worst terrorist attack against the U.S.…
Apart from his long-demonstrated political incompetence easily hidden as a Senator, Joe Biden was once thought to have empathy… until he became president. He spent fifty years creating an image that he had a sense of caring. It was all a con job. He’s an immoral, unethical freeloader who berates…
Secretary of State Antony Blinken represents conventional wisdom when claiming that “It’s been longstanding US policy… that new settlements are… inconsistent with international law.” However, conventional wisdom is frequently demolished by the march of facts. For instance: *According to Prof. Eugene Rostow, who was the co-author of the November 22, 1967…
For those who are unaware, Donald Trump grew up in Queens, NY, one of the boroughs of New York City. There are five: Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Staten Island, and Queens. Most of the attention goes to Manhattan, the land of the high rise, the Empire State Building, St. Patrick’s…
Joe Biden has become our nation’s great embarrassment. If term limits had been in effect years ago, Joe would have been weeded out long before the “Peter Principle raised him to the dangerous position he now holds. Long have public service employees recognized the only way to get idiots out…
Prof. Bernard Lewis, who was a leading authority on Islam and the Middle East, shed light on a cardinal aspect of the frustrating, complicated and inconvenient reality of the Middle East: “If the fighters in the war for Islam are fighting for God, it follows that their opponents are fighting…
Yes, our country is a mess. How did we get here? Was it incompetence or intentional? Eight years of Obama and almost four years of Biden have been devastating to our country. The Democrat Party and their Republican toadies, aka RINOS, have taken our country down a road we have…
Last week, following the deaths of three US soldiers in Jordan by an Iranian proxy drone attack, the term “The Biden Doctrine” came up on a news blog site. It was in the form of a question, and the speaker could not articulate it. I’ll give it a go, but first, we…
*For the last 45 years, the US has attempted to pacify the anti-US Iran’s Ayatollahs, via dramatic financial and diplomatic gestures, to advance the cause of human rights and democracy in Iran, and to promote peaceful coexistence between Iran and its Sunni Arab neighbors. In fact, the 45-year-old US diplomatic…