The President’s foreign policy, or lack thereof, amounts to little more than instinctual appeasement and retreatism. By refusing to keep faith with our allies, he is quite literally surrendering America’s place in the world order.
Link: The Jefferson View
In my latest for the NOQ Report, I lay out the Jefferson View on foreign policy: that liberty threatened anywhere is liberty threatened everywhere.
The Liberty Letter | All About Iran
Justin Stapley offers (what he hopes) is his final analysis on the Iran situation.
By Jingo!
Across the length and breadth of the internet, in Twitter and Facebook timelines, on blogs, and right-leaning media outlets, supporters and defenders of Donald Trump have reacted to the idea of war with Iran with almost joyful pro-war jingoism.
General Soleimani was in Baghdad to meet the Iraqi Prime Minister
In the wake of the American attack that killed Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, the current Iraqi Prime Minister, Adil Abdul-Mahdi, has claimed the general was in Baghdad as an envoy to deliver him a message from Tehran.
The Liberty Letter | God Bless Gun Culture
What the shooting at West Freeway Church of Christ teaches us about gun culture and the ‘good guy with a gun’. Also, discussing the ignoble tradition of the mad king, and whether appeasement or deterrence is the best foreign policy approach in Iran and beyond.
The Syrian Withdrawal | A Reply to a Veteran
Respecting veteran’s sacrifices while advocating for a strong and decisive global American role.
Trump’s Cowardice on Full Display
Donald Trump is surrendering the US position in Syria and has betrayed our Kurdish allies.
It’s Time To Intervene in Venezuela
Venezuela remains the crowning jewel of US ignorance.