It is time for the United States to say farewell to NATO, so that we can focus our limited resources in meeting the real threat to our security in the Indo-Pacific. Europe can take care of itself.…
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Francis P. Sempa
Historically, American presidents during time of war have done what they thought was necessary to protect the homeland, not bothering about Constitutional niceties.…
Middle East wars and conflicts have sometimes been the graveyard of U.S. presidencies. There is something about the region and its geopolitics that has often, but not always, eluded the political grasp of our nation’s leaders.…
I have been writing about history and foreign policy for 40 years for national and international publications, and many readers have disagreed with my policy views and interpretations of historical events, but until now no reader has ever accused me of “dishonest writings.”…
On foreign policy, the essay quotes Washington’s warnings about “permanent inveterate antipathies” and steering clear of “permanent alliances,” but the essay omits his qualifications...…
The tradition of reading the Farewell Address in the Senate goes back to 1862, when the country was torn by civil war. Secretary of the Senate John Forney read the address on that occasion to mark the 130th anniversary of Washington’s birth.…
In an exercise of refreshing candor, the authors of the NDS say the quiet part out loud: Europe isn’t as important as it used to be in global affairs. It now takes a back seat in that regard to the Indo-Pacific.…
The White House explained that the withdrawals “will end American taxpayer funding and involvement in entities that advance globalist agendas over U.S. priorities” or that are ineffective.…
The National Cultural Center, established by President Dwight Eisenhower and Congress in 1958, was renamed in honor of JFK by President Lyndon Johnson and an act of Congress in January 1964. Johnson, whom the Kennedys mocked and ridiculed while he was vice-president and whose every act as president was political, capitalized on the nation’s sympathy for the slain president in his march to a landslide election later that November.…
The idea that the United States has a responsibility to protect free peoples “anywhere and everywhere” under attack by international aggressors is a recipe for more endless wars.…
