Double or Quits

Mar. 16, 2016 by

I have just finished reading an article entitled “Fight or Flight: America’s Choice in the Middle East” in Foreign Affairs (behind the subscription blocker here).  It is written by Kenneth

To Be or Not to Be: The UK Referendum

Feb. 22, 2016 by

The big news over the weekend in the United Kingdom (UK) is that, after having secured some kind of deal from his European Union (EU) partners, Prime Minister David Cameron has

Millennial Turkeys Do Vote for Thanksgiving

Feb. 17, 2016 by

The Economist has recently run a special report on the young, concluding that the roughly 1.8 billion people in the world between the ages of 15 to 30 are an

ISIS (Part Three)

Dec. 31, 2015 by

In the first two parts of this series we talked about the “forward defence” and the “defend the border” strategies for responding to ISIS terrorism.  Today, we will talk about

ISIS (Part Two)

Dec. 27, 2015 by

In my first posting on this subject, we talked about what could be called the “forward defence” argument for military action against ISIS in Syria and Iraq.  Advocates of this

ISIS (Part One)

Dec. 22, 2015 by

The recent terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California, have thrown the debate about ISIS into overdrive, particularly among the presidential candidates.  Several strands have emerged from these discussions,