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Max Boot
Protected: Cleaning Up Obama’s Syria Mess
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America’s Hot Proxy War with Iran
On Sunday, three cruise missiles were fired from the Houthi-controlled coast of Yemen at the USS Mason, an American destroyer in international waters in the...
Time to Honor Our OSS Vets
All but forgotten today, the Office of Strategic Services was America’s first civilian intelligence agency. Hastily organized after the start of World War II by...
Acts of War Cannot Go Ignored
On Sunday night, as Americans were transfixed by the spectacle of the second presidential debate, events occurred off the coast of Yemen that remind us...
Punishing Putin
Almost forgotten now amid the justifiable uproar over the Donald Trump-Billy Bush tape was another significant development that occurred on Friday: The Director of National...
Buck Passing at the Ballot Box
I got to California on Sunday, the very same day that the world was stunned by the news that Colombia's voters had by the tiniest...
War Drums Beat for Colombia Again
First the victory of Brexit and now the defeat of the Colombian peace deal: The world keeps getting shocked by the outcome of pivotal referenda....
American Athletes Hiding Behind the Fleet
Back in 1933, the Oxford Union provoked a furor when its member approved a resolution stating that "this House will in no circumstances fight for...
Congress Humiliates Itself
If you want to know why so many people hate Congress, look at the way it has handled the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act...
Vladimir Putin, War Criminal
It's unlikely to happen, but if there is any justice in this world, Vladimir Putin will someday have to answer for his crimes. He has...
Americans Don’t Buy Snowden the Hero
The Kremlin thinks everyone should see Oliver Stone's adulatory bio-pic Snowden. “[It has] a brilliant script,” said Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, “and, what is most...
Terror Prevention Isn’t Impossible
Based on the spate of recent terrorist attacks in the United States, it's easy to conclude that the FBI is incompetent. After all, the FBI...