With An Unresolved Election, Things Are Getting Worse In Afghanistan
WASHINGTON – The Obama “Afghanistan exit strategy” was based on two major assumptions. Number 1: The US and its NATO allies...
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Europe’s Financial Problems Have Not Been Fixed
WASHINGTON – We were told that Europe’s fiscal/solvency crisis was over. Due to the forceful leadership of Mario Draghi,...
The Border Crisis Reinforces The Perception Of An Incompetent Obama Administration
WASHINGTON – Call it “the unintended consequences of clever politics”. The current border crisis caused by the unprecedented influx...
Electric Vehicle Technology Advances May Destroy The Global Oil Industry
WASHINGTON – Joseph Schumpeter famously called it “creative destruction”. This was and still is the best way to describe...
America’s Foreign Policy Retreat: No Will And No Money
WASHINGTON – Several WSJ editorial writers point out that the loss of American influence in world affairs is a self-inflicted...
Politics Is About Clever Manipulation
WASHINGTON – Presumptive 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is in the news. Various articles report on her artful maneuvers...
The Crisis Of the Arab World Will Go On And On
WASHINGTON – With sympathy but a great deal of pessimism The Economist examines the state of perennial backwardness of...
Monticello In The Spring
WASHINGTON – A while ago I found in a Virginia thrift shop an old color photograph of Monticello, the...
The Fourth Of July Is A Reminder To Appreciate The Gift Of Freedom
WASHINGTON– Today is the Fourth of July, the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of 1776 –and America’s most...
The Neo-Cons Wanted Democracy In Iraq – What We Have Is Civil War And Growing Iranian Influence
WASHINGTON – President George W. Bush and the much maligned neo-cons who used to run his security policies had a...