August 12, 2024

Biden to Poland: Show some restraint

President Joseph R. Biden today urged the Poles show restraint in their response to the Nazi invasion.  “A violent response will not be useful,” the president said. “I say to those still alive in Poland that they need to declar...

August 11, 2023

We Can't be the World's Policeman?

A persistent strain of isolationism courses through the American bloodstream. Proponents generally cite George Washington in his farewell address to the nation, claiming that he warned against “entangling alliances.”  He didn...

January 10, 2023

The Reality of War

On the night of 9/12/2001, my phone was ringing as I walked in the door after two days on standby at my fire department. I was an Ashburn, VA firefighter/EMT. We had sent one fire truck and ambulance already to the Pentagon that terrible morning of 9...

November 5, 2022

Weaponizing Children

In an Afghan cave, men slept rolled up in their patus, the thin woolen shawl that served as blanket, cloak, camouflage, shelter, shroud. In the dark, a small shape stirred and slipped silently out of its patu. There was no sound but snoring from the ...

April 25, 2022

Seeing Red

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez got one thing right early in her political career when she declared that the Democrats would turn the whole country red. She was immediately corrected, but she was right in her color selection. Who was the genius who color...