I was a Federal government whistleblower, revealing the failure of Iraq Reconstruction at a time when everyone from President Obama to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was praising it as the solution to America’s nation-building expedition in Iraq. I made public information the government wished to keep quiet, though in my case everything was unclassified, […]
“Tell me how this ends,” a young General David Petraeus asked early in Gulf War II, after the Iraqi Army had largely been defeated. The United States is extraordinarily good at the first half of wars and far less capable in the second. So how does this one with Iran end? Gulf War I was […]
Why is it so important for the U.S. to take and retain control of the Strait of Hormuz? No matter what else, why is this the only real non-negotiable with Iran? At first glance the non-negotiable seems to be Iran’s nuclear program. This leaves open the question of what might be left of the program […]
Why does the U.S. mainstream media continue to mock America’s war efforts? Why does coverage of the Iran war appear to favor Iranian narratives? The New York Times pulled no punches on where it thinks things stood just before the pre-cease fire. “A slurring Trump rehashed a bunch of his Truth Social posts, alternately boasting […]
Despite the President and his Secretary of State working to do away with Obama and Biden-era Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI; the State Department added an “A” for accessibility under Biden, so DEIA) programs and their enforcement bureaucracy, Democrats in the Senate are pushing to revive two programs, the Charles Rangel and Thomas Pickering Fellowships. […]
Somewhere near the Persian Gulf an American serviceman is at this moment scribbling a Chuck Norris joke (some call them Norris “facts”) on a porta-potty wall. It may be one everyone has heard a thousand times but still smiles at in the worst of conditions, or something new, to be repeated as it works its […]
Much of the commentary on the confrontation in the Strait of Hormuz assumes the United States has stumbled into an unprecedented crisis. CNN started the meme claiming unidentified “sources” leaked a classified briefing saying just that, that what was unfolding is racked by confusion and disbelief. The Atlantic followed with a scolding think piece, the […]
Will the Kurds fight the government in Tehran at Washington’s urging, opening a new ground front in Iran? The U.S. seemingly wants them to, but the Kurds and Washington have a sordid history on this topic. What will Kurdish leaders advise their people to do? Imagine you are one of those Kurdish leaders today, say […]
Once the first bombs fell, it no longer mattered what might have happened if the U.S. stuck by the Obama nuclear accords, or any other of the what ifs all the way back to the CIA overthrow of Iran’s democratically elected government in 1953. All that matters is what happens next, now. Here are three […]
How are you going to get through the holidays? Will you bake artisanal bread and play board games? Others will spend the time dying of fentanyl overdose because that is better than acknowledging their lives had fallen somehow even another level closer to hell. These ghosts of our nation drove overdose deaths to record highs. […]
