Nationalism, Not NATO, Is Our Great Ally
Patrick Buchanan, Buchanan.org A new world is coming. While perhaps unwelcome news for the transnational elites championing such causes as climate change and battling global economic inequality, it's...
View ArticleCentury Old Terrorists Still Creating Wars From Iraq To Ukraine
By Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute (@Doug_Bandow) | 7/2/2014 A century ago one of America’s most disastrous presidents, the haughty, sanctimonious, and egotistical Woodrow Wilson, imagined...
View ArticleUkraine Crisis Reminds Americans Why NATO Should Not Expand
By Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute (@Doug_Bandow) | 7/30/2014 The ongoing strife in Ukraine is a crime by Moscow and tragedy for Kiev. It’s also a warning for America. Washington should...
View ArticleU.S. Should Defend South Korea by Letting it Develop Nuclear Weapons
By Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute (@Doug_Bandow) | 8/22/2014 In Northeast Asia, nonproliferation has become the international equivalent of gun control: only the bad guys have guns....
View ArticleObama Defends Islam, Smacks Israel, American Racism at UN
Be Shapiro, Breitbart Taking on issues ranging from Iran to Russia, from Ukraine to Syria, from global warming to Ebola, Obama pledged to utilize American might in service to the UN, speaking grandly...
View ArticleRussia Should Bury Lenin’s Body and the Rest of Communism
By Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute [@Doug_Bandow] | 11/25/2014 Burying Vladimir Lenin would be a powerful symbolic gesture to close an era. That still might not help the West understand...
View ArticleU.S. and Russia Must Find Exit to Ukraine Impasse
By Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute [@Doug_Bandow] | 12/2/2014 Obama has no plausible strategy to reverse Putin’s policy toward Ukraine. While sanctions may be hurting Russia in the short...
View ArticleKGB's Old Headquarters of Lubyanka Glowers at New Russia, Much Like the Old
By Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute [@Doug_Bandow] | 12/12/2014 Despite the frenzied push in Washington for economic sanctions and military threats, the success of Putinism is well beyond...
View ArticleWhy is America Adding Montenegro to NATO?
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow Cato Institute [@Doug_Bandow] NATO originally was created to act as a firebreak to war. Current policy threatens to turn it into a transmission belt of war. After getting...
View ArticleForeign Liberals Shouldn’t be Liberal with American Lives and Money
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow Cato Institute [@Doug_Bandow] Nothing in liberal philosophy requires residents of the globe’s most powerful “liberal” nation to bankrupt themselves, sacrifice their liberty,...
View ArticlePoland Wants Britain to Help Stick Washington with Bigger NATO Bill
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow Cato Institute [@Doug_Bandow] No one seriously expects the Dutch, Italians, or Spanish to provide permanent garrisons for Poland. The Germans, who publicly oppose the idea,...
View ArticleWhy are America’s Allies so Persistently Pathetic?
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow Cato Institute [@Doug_Bandow] Washington’s allies generally are a pathetic lot. Benefiting from sizeable and capable populations and enjoying large and advanced economies,...
View ArticleTrump Is Right: U.S. Should Discuss Ending The Nuclear Umbrella Over Japan...
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow Cato Institute [@Doug_Bandow] The way Washington won agreement from some nuclear-capable powers to abstain from going nuclear is to provide a “nuclear umbrella,” that is,...
View ArticleMust America Do More To Satisfy Paranoid Members Of NATO?
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute [@Doug_Bandow] When NATO was created Western Europe was a wreck. Today the GDP and population of united Europe is greater than those of America and a...
View ArticleOur Impulsive Foreign Policy Establishment
Patrick J. Buchanan, The American Conservative Donald Trump calls the NATO alliance a rip-off, a tripwire for World War III and “obsolete.” Hillary Clinton compares Putin’s actions in Ukraine to...
View ArticleTurkey in Crisis: Another Lesson Why U.S. Should Avoid Foreign Meddling
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow Cato Institute [@Doug_Bandow] Washington should not be isolated from the world, but it should stop attempting to forcibly transform the world. In Turkey the U.S. has found...
View ArticleObama’s Jimmy Carter Moment Coming In Turkey
George Rasley, CHQ Editor | 8/1/2016 History tells us that there can be no real or lasting cooperation with Islamist regimes, yet Obama has regularly sided against secular forces and with Muslim...
View ArticleShhhh! Hillary Clinton has a big Russia problem, too
Editors, Washington Examiner Democrats live in a glass house on the Putin/Russia issue, as their own nominee, Hillary Clinton, has taken Putin-connected money and perhaps unwittingly, through action...
View ArticleToss Turkey Out Of NATO
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow Cato Institute [@Doug_Bandow] Today Turkey undermines U.S. and European security. As Ankara moves toward an authoritarian one-party state, its membership in NATO becomes...
View ArticleTrump: Why Should America Defend Europeans Who Won’t Defend Themselves?
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow Cato Institute [@Doug_Bandow] “Many NATO nations are not making payments, are not making what they’re supposed to make,” Trump has complained.” He “would prefer not to...
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