We should raise gas taxes
Wow! We are almost a month into the New Year and I haven’t written anything. There is so much to talk about. Charlie Hebdo, the President’s State of the Union, Deflategate, Boko Haram,… Continue reading
Category Archive: Foreign Policy
Obama Speech: We are all to blame pt. 3
A couple of days ago President Obama gave a speech in which he described how he was re-engaging American military forces in Iraq to combat the growing terrorist threat from ISIS (Islamic State… Continue reading
Iraq: We Are All to Blame…pt 2…Barack Obama
Now that we’ve given proper attention to how this whole sordid mess got started we can move on because there is no one whose hands are clean when it comes to Iraq. This… Continue reading
Iraq: We Are All to Blame pt. 1…George W. Bush
George Bush famously commented that history would judge whether his actions in Iraq were successful or not. At this point I think we have enough evidence to understand that this is definitely not… Continue reading
The Obama Doctrine (Part 2)
As I said before I think the President’s handling of the Ukraine crisis indicates some things about his foreign policy beliefs and I think that this is a great time to try to… Continue reading
Ukraine: Why is it so important?
Since I finally got around to writing about Ukraine I figured I’d go ahead and fill in some reasons why Ukraine is important to the Russia and the United States. Why is Ukraine… Continue reading
The Obama Doctrine: A war of dollars instead of missiles
Generally speaking, the attachment of a President’s name to a doctrine is about a foreign policy position and by now it is public knowledge that President Obama has been confronted with some great… Continue reading
Will we avoid conflict in Syria?
So yesterday I wrote about how I believe the United States should attack Syria. However during the day, events unfolded that may make an attack on Syria a moot point. Secretary of State… Continue reading
Song for Syria (Part 5) How we should attack
Now that I have covered the “why” concerning the question of action in Syria. I turn my focus to the “how.” The thorny question of how we should act concerning Syria is one… Continue reading
We must support the Iran deal
This month Congress will vote on whether or not to sign a deal that would lift the sanctions on Iran while placing the most extensive nuclear inspection regime ever on the country. When… Continue reading →