Avi Berkowitz, “Seventy years of post-war diplomacy ruined” is the consensus establishment view of Donald Trump’s America First foreign policy. And it is true. But Donald Trump is not the first president in postwar America to rattle the iron cage of establishment diplomacy. That honor goes to Harry Truman, who ruined Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s vision of the postwar
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Peace Through Strength: Another Trump Radicalism?
Brian Birdnow, In the last couple of weeks, the Western world has celebrated another Christmas, notwithstanding the killjoys who insist on arguing about how to extend the greetings of the season. In addition, we have had a brief, but welcome, respite in the sexual harassment casualty count, as 2017 passes into the record books. What
Top Marine General Says ‘There’s a War Coming’
The commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. Robert Neller, told troops Thursday that “there’s a war coming” and urged them to be prepared. “I hope I’m wrong, but there’s a war coming,” Neller told Marines stationed in Norway, during a visit there, according to Military.com. “You’re in a fight here, an informational fight, a political fight,
The US Should Pull Out of the UN
Daniel Greenfield, President Trump and Ambassador Haley deserve lots of credit for fighting the good fight in the UN. But as this latest vote showed, it’s a dead end. The UN is dominated by a corrupt, left-wing bureaucracy. And by bloc votes of Islamic countries and third world dictatorships whom Western countries strive to appease
Is a Trump Doctrine Already Taking Shape?
Rachel Marsden, TANGIER, Morocco — As current and former presidents, ministers and members of various government administrations from all over the world gathered here last week for an annual conference near Africa’s northernmost point, attendees repeatedly circled back to one individual in their comments and questions: U.S. President Donald Trump. While speaking on a panel
Who Gets to Have Nuclear Weapons and Why?
Victor Davis Hanson, Given North Korea’s nuclear lunacy, what exactly are the rules, formal or implicit, about which nations can have nuclear weapons and which cannot? It is complicated. In the free-for-all environment of the 1940s and 1950s, the original nuclear club included only those countries with the technological know-how, size and money to build
It’s Trump’s Party Now
Pat Buchanan, “More is now required of us than to put down our thoughts in writing,” declaimed Jeff Flake in his oration against President Trump, just before he announced he will be quitting the Senate. Though he had lifted the title of his August anti-Trump polemic, “Conscience of a Conservative,” from Barry Goldwater, Jeff Flake
Chinese Colonialism is Growing Fast in America
Lloyd Billingsley, Farming weed, cultivating academics, and conning California. The legalization of marijuana for medicinal or recreational use, has not, as some politicians proclaimed, eliminated the black market for cannabis. Illicit weed grows are common in California, often manned by U.S. citizens or Mexican nationals in the country illegally. Like Sollozzo in The Godfather, the