Category Archives: Foreign Policy

Daniel Pipes Recommends US Actively Prop Up a Failing and Unrepentant State Sponsor of Terrorism, Assad’s Syria

Posted on May 11, 2013 by Jim

Somehow, Daniel Pipes must have come to the conclusion that there are bad terrorists and worse terrorists, so we should be friends with the bad ones. Last month, Pipes shifted his recommendation of neutrality in the Syrian civil war to … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign Policy | Tagged American interests, Assad, Barack Obama, civil war, Daniel Pipes, Islamism, Libya, oil, Phil Sheridan, Syria, terrorism, WMD | Leave a comment

President Truman vs. General MacArthur: An Administration Not on the Same Page

Posted on March 17, 2013 by Jim

The Korean conflict between President Harry S. Truman and General Douglas MacArthur has been framed in history by the partisans of Truman as a case of the commander-in-chief replacing an insubordinate general. However, the full context is not only more … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign Policy, History, President | Tagged civilian control of the military, Containment, Dean Acheson, Douglas MacArthur, George Marshall, Harry Truman, Korean War, leadership, North Korea, South Korea | 4 Comments

President Truman vs. General MacArthur: Unprincipled Policies Lead to Serial SNAFUs

Posted on March 13, 2013 by Jim

Posted in Foreign Policy, History, President | Tagged April Glaspie, Chicoms, China, civilian control of the military, Containment, Douglas MacArthur, elections, Formosa, Harry Truman, Indo-China, Iraq, Korean War, leadership, Mali, North Korea, Saddam Hussein, South Korea, Sudan, Taiwan, Uganda, Vietnam | 5 Comments

President Truman vs. General MacArthur: Allies as Liabilities

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Jim

Posted in Foreign Policy, History, President | Tagged civilian control of the military, Containment, Dean Acheson, Douglas MacArthur, elections, Harry Truman, Korean War, leadership, Omar Bradley | 4 Comments

President Truman vs. General MacArthur: The Problem of Inferior Leaders

Posted on February 24, 2013 by Jim

Posted in Foreign Policy, History, President, Uncategorized | Tagged Afghanistan, Barack Obama, civilian control of the military, Containment, Dean Acheson, Douglas MacArthur, Harry Truman, Korean War, leadership, Omar Bradley, Stanley McChrystal | 4 Comments

The Occupation Issue and the Middle East

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Jim

Let us get serious for a moment and discuss the Occupation that is destabilizing the Middle East. Since 1925, the House of Saud has been occupying the Hijaz, which is the region that includes the Islamic holy sites in Mecca … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign Policy, History | Tagged Abul-Aziz ibn Saud, Algeria, Iran, Islam, Israel, Jordan, middle-east, muslim arabs, Muslims, Muslims killing Muslims, Occupation, Palestinians, religion, satire, Saudi Arabia, terrorism, Yeman | Leave a comment

Dakota Meyer (Medal of Honor Recipient, Afghanistan) and the State of Our Military

Posted on January 17, 2013 by Jim

In October 2012, Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer spoke at the Pritzker Military Library about the fight at Ganjigal, Afghanistan. His talk provides unfiltered first person testimony about our troops’ experiences in Afghanistan. Having listened to a number of … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign Policy | Tagged Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Bing West, Dakota Meyers, Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, Marines, Medal of Honor, military policy, Pentagon, Pritzker Military Library | 1 Comment

Did the Egyptian liberal candidates advocate for economic deregulation and reforms to protect property rights?

Posted on July 26, 2012 by Jim

I have received a number of questions that are pending response related to the posts on Selfish Citizenship. Some have occurred in comments on this blog, and other have occurred on other platforms associated with it such as Redddit, FaceBook, … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign Policy, Questions | Tagged Arab Spring, Daniel Pipes, economic regulation, Egypt, Erdogan, Hernando de Soto, laissez-faire capitalism, Mubarak, Muslim Brotherhood, property rights, Turkey | 2 Comments

On Foreign Policy, American Founders vs. Ron Paul

Posted on July 25, 2012 by Jim

It has been asserted that Ron Paul’s foreign policy is consistent with that of our Founders. Let me list some of the actual foreign policies of the early American government so that supporters of Paul can reconsider whether he is … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign Policy | Tagged Andrew Jackson, Barbary pirates, C. Bradley Thomspson, colonization, democratic, Democratic-Republican party, Douglas Southall Freeman, Dumas Malone, Florida, Founding Fathers, France, freed slaves, George Washington, Harry Ammon, Indian, James Madison, James Monroe, John Adams, John Quincey Adams, Liberia, Libertarian, Lousiana, Marines, Mississippi, Monroe doctorine, Napoleon, Neopleonic wars, pirates, Ralph Ketcham, Republican, Ron Paul, Samuel Flagg Bemis, Seminoles, Spain, Thomas Jefferson, Tripoli, United Kingdom, War of 1812 | 4 Comments