August 18, 2021

Biden's disgraceful retreat

For more than a decade, I hunted terrorists as a supervisory special agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration, and I believe that the United States' abandonment of Afghanistan is a disgraceful, immoral, and short-sighted foreign policy disa...

March 11, 2020

Hunting Narco-Terrorists in Afghanistan

It’s time for DEA to blitz Afghanistan.  DEA should commit additional manpower and resources to fill the vacuum created by the U.S. military’s drawdown.  It may seem strange to call for an expanded role after the Trump administr...

March 29, 2018

In Afghanistan, Concessions Are Appeasement

Afghan president Ashraf Ghani's recent peace overtures to the Afghan Taliban amount to appeasement and should be condemned by the United States.  This week, regional and world leaders met at a conference in Tashkent, Uzbekistan to discu...

February 27, 2018

Stalking an Active Shooter

During the recent shooting in Parkland, Florida, four Broward County sheriff's deputies, including a school resource officer, allegedly waited to enter Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School while children were being murdered inside.  If ...

June 13, 2017

Understanding Narco-Terrorism

To defeat terrorism, the United States should use federal criminal laws to aggressively target narco-terrorists. While narco-terrorism is frequently mentioned in the news, it is rarely explained properly, and as a result, many skeptics doubt its impa...