Foreign Policy
Remembering the Cuban Missile Crisis
George Santayana famously said, โThose who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.โ Letโs remember the Cuban Missile Crisis in order to better understand the situation in Ukraine.ย In 1898, the U.S. went to war against Spain in an ostensible attempt to...
The Ukraine War is a Racket
โWar is a racket, wrote US Maj. General Smedley Butler in 1935. He explained: โA racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small โinsideโ group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the...
No Entangling Alliances
Assuming that America can avoid a nuclear war with Russia, the American people would be well-served to ponder and reflect on some of the good founding principles of our country. One of those good founding principles was โno entangling alliances.โ It would be difficult...
The Constitutionality of the Iran Nuclear Deal (Again)
With the impending revival of the nuclear agreement with Iran, I thought it might be useful to repost my (short!) article on nonbinding agreements, which among other things examines the constitutionality of theย original 2015 deal.ย Core conclusion: if the agreement...