The ripple effect theory An underlying assumption behind any US agreement with Iran’s Ayatollahs is that the Ayatollahs would utilize the resulting financial and diplomatic bonanza for butter rather than guns. Moreover, it is assumed that Iran’s Ayatollahs are amenable to good-faith negotiation and peaceful-coexistence. These assumptions have been quashed…
US departure from the recognition of a United Jerusalem as the exclusive capital of the Jewish State, and the site of the US Embassy to Israel, would be consistent with the track record of the State Department, which has been systematically wrong on Middle East issues, such as its opposition…
Secretary of State Blinken pressures Israel Secretary of State, Antony Blinken – the chief architect of President Biden’s foreign and national security policy – is pressuring Israel to embrace his (classic State Department) policy on the rogue regime of Iran’s Ayatollahs and the Palestinian issue. *Irrespective of the systematic track record…
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terror organization is often in the business of “jihad now, not later,” an approach that has led to multiple deadly escalations between it and Israel in the Gaza Strip – even when this did not suit the immediate interests of Gaza’s Islamist rulers, Hamas. However,…
The extension of US gestures and concessions to Islamic terrorists, and the waiving of a US military option while negotiating with Iran’s regime of terror, are perceived as weakness by terrorists, adversaries and allies of the US. Such a policy ignores, or takes lightly, the objective and well-documented 1,400 year…
Whispered first, then shouted from the dust and wreckage of that September morning in 2001 came the words that have become a mantra: Never forget. And in the two decades since the attacks of 9/11, there is much we never did forget: the deaths, the despair, the fire, the fear,…
We are at war! And the first casualty is always truth, truth as to what is going on. This war is global. It is not conventional, but it will be the deadliest war in human history. It is a declared war on the middle class, but the middle-class is not…
We now know that the stubborn, almost incomprehensible way in which President Biden pulled out of Afghanistan was against military advice; that it led to the deaths of 13 American soldiers and those of countless Afghan civilians. It caused traumatic pandemonium in the streets – and the swift takeover of the…
I never liked that term, “war on terror.” Terrorism is a tactic; it is not the enemy we fought every day. The term has done more to confuse us than enlighten us. [O]ne can see why the phrase “war on terror” became the widely accepted nomenclature. It was neutral. Gone…
[Editor’s note: This Epoch Times article by J.M. Phelps is based in large part on an interview with Capt. Larry Bailey (SEAL) USN (ret.), a member of the Citizens Commission on National Security] September 22, 2021 The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is continuing to expand its global footprint in shipping…
The disappointing fact is that there is a long and rich list of potential targets. It begins with President Joe “The Buck Stops Here” Biden as the obvious choice. The President bears ultimate responsibility for making the decisions that led to America’s surrender and leaving our citizens behind. The President…
The Intelligence Community’s COVID Summary is dangerous; infinitely more dangerous than it appears. How can the IC seriously believe that China’s active stonewalling of the international community’s attempts to get to the bottom of what happened and thus learn better how to combat the virus can be reduced to its…