"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Conflict between extremist muslims and all the rest of the world whose beliefs are not congruent with theirs.
Iranian Emad IRBM at launch Photo Credit: Wikimedia commons/Tasnimnews/Mohammad Agah Much has been said recently about President Trump’s decertification of Iran’s compliance to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the JCPOA. … Read More
Progressives man the barricades the day after Donald J. Trump’s inauguration as President of the United States. Youtube / Ibrahim Ka-Almasih Garba It is not as if Donald J. Trump … Read More
Painting of “The Ratification of the Treaty of Münster”. This is one of the treaties leading to the Peace of Westphalia, in which the concept of the modern nation state … Read More
Aspects of U.S. Foreign Relations Top (Left to Right): U.S. Army soldiers in Ramadi, August 2006 Wikimedia Commons / Air Force Tech Sgt. Jeremy T. Lock Container ship from … Read More
The Monument to Multiculturalism by Francesco Peril in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Four identical sculptures are locate in Buffalo City, South Africa; Changchun, China; Sarajevo, Bosnia; and Sydney, Australia Wikimedia Commons … Read More
President Obama meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss Syria and ISIS, September 29, 2015 Wikimedia Commons/Kremlin.ru No American president in my lifetime has had a foreign policy that … Read More
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton take the stage at the third and final Presidential debate. The differences between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton on foreign policy appear to be more … Read More
The Thinker in The Gates of Hell at the Musée Rodin Wikimedia Commons/Jean-Pierre Dalbéra, Paris, France The most sacred words any human being can utter are “I believe …”, The more … Read More
The North Face of Two World Trade Center (south tower) immediately after being struck by United Airlines Flight 175. Wikimedia Commons/Robert on Flickr It has been fifteen years to the … Read More
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. The three witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Act 4, scene 1 Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Johann Heinrich Füssli 1783 The Western World’s political … Read More
People’s Liberation Army contingent at 2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade Wikimedia Commons/Kremlin.ru Probing of the U.S. alliance periphery is being done by more than just Russia and ISIS. In my … Read More
States with U.S. military relationships: Dark Blue are the NATO members, Purple are major non-NATO allies, and Pale Blue are signatories of Partnership for Peace with NATO Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Sesmith … Read More
Ottoman depiction of the siege of Vienna by Muslim forces in 1529. Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons/”Istanbul”, Hachette, Collection “Voir” (PD-Art) It is rapidly becoming obvious to a number of people that … Read More
The European Parliament in Strasbourg, France Wikimedia Commons/Diliff With the three recent jihadist attacks on Brussels and Paris, Europe has been given a wake-up notice … Read More
Views that fuel Donald Trump’s Campaign Image Credit: Flickr.com/Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com The political reactions working in favor of Donald Trump, or for that matter, Bernie Sanders have been a long time … Read More
Libya: A nation being absorbed by the ISIS Caliphate? Map courtesy of Google/Nations Online Project The release of the movie 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi appears to have triggered … Read More
President Obama and Secretary Clinton honor the Benghazi attack victims at the Transfer of Remains Ceremony held at Andrews Air Force Base on September 14, 2012. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/US … Read More
Flags of Saudi Arabia and Israel Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Saudi Arabia is suddenly finding itself very isolated and threatened internationally. At one time Saudi … Read More
Coalition air strike on ISIS positions in Kobani, Northern Syria, October 2014 Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Voice of America Schuyler Moore has just published a very interesting idea about ISIS in … Read More
U.S. aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman in the Gulf of Oman, Dec. 25, 2015 Photo Credit: U.S.Navy/Mass Communication Spec 3D Class J.M. Tolbert Last October and November the Iranians sent us … Read More
Tomb of Karl Marx Photo Credit: Flickr.com/Matt From London These troubled times see Americans traveling in sharply different ideological directions. At least partially isolated from each other … Read More
Obama and the World (c) Can Stock Photo Every now and then you read a book or an article, or in this case an internet posting, that is so perfect, … Read More
Memorial to Nov. 2015 Paris attacks at French Embassy in Moscow Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Stolbovsky Dartmouth College academics Steven Simon and Daniel Benjamin, writing the post Could Paris Happen Here? … Read More
Black flag of ISIS Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham) has just reminded us in … Read More
U.S. troops near Siauliai Zuokniai, Lithuania, April 26, 2014 Photo Credit: AFP/Petras Malukas The U.S. and our NATO alliance are now facing the consequences of a weak … Read More
Russian TU-95 bomber intercepted over North Sea/Atlantic Ocean, 29 October 2014 Photo Credit: NATO/RAF The Obama administration has made the world more dangerous for the West by more than just … Read More
Iranian and P5+1 Negotiators for Iran Nuclear Deal Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/US State Dept. At times it seems as if the Obama administration would just as soon wall the rest … Read More
Now we learn Russia is building an airbase in Latakia, Syria. Also see here. The United States may be attempting to withdraw from the world, but Russia is expanding to … Read More
Al Qaeda and ISIS are not the only islamic jihadist organizations to worry about; there is Iran as well. The Washington Times has cited a release from the Iranian Fars … Read More
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, in a speech to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, declared that the breakup of the USSR was “the greatest geopolitical tragedy of the twentieth century”, or … Read More
