Over the past weekend, some apologists for President Donald Trump’s recently ordered attacks on Iran argued that because Trump’s plans call for a quick strike, the attacks do not constitute a war. George Orwell is vindicated yet again. These apologists believe that calling a war ...
DEAR EDITOR: Now that Mr. Trump, our national Master of Misdirection, has launched an illegal and unconstitutional war in the Middle East, killing thousands of civilians, not soldiers, all noncombatants, he believes America will put its concerns about inflation and our economy aside. Not gonna ...
The United States is winning. Anyone telling you otherwise is either mistaken — or rooting for a different outcome. That may sound blunt. But it happens to be true. The Iranian regime’s best remaining strategy is not military. It is political. Tehran is not counting on its air defenses, ...
DEAR EDITOR: The United States Postal Service (USPS) has one job: deliver the mail. You write a letter, address it, and put a stamp on it that pays for the delivery service. It’s a lot more complicated than that, obviously, but when you get right down to it, that’s the only objective; ...
The past two weeks have been hard. U.S. missiles and bombs have caused as of Wednesday at least 1,300 civilian deaths in Iran, including 188 schoolchildren. Seven American service members have perished. A direct line connects this violence with the U.S. government’s violence over the past ...
In 2020, Chinese President Xi Jinping declared, “The East is rising, and the West is declining.” It certainly looked that way during former President Joe Biden’s term. In August 2021, Biden surrendered Afghanistan to the Taliban. During the chaotic pullout, a suicide bomber killed ...