I recently read an article about an impending Chinese Collapse by Peter Zeihan of Stratfor.  It seems like for the last ten years I have been hearing about the rise of China and the impending collapse of America.  While the Sinophiles have made compelling cases that China has been emerging as a notable power, it [...]

Barack Obama, alas, looked into Vladimir Putin’s cold, hard eyes and found a man he wants America to depend on. -Wesley Pruden I haven’t yet written about Obama receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.  For all of those who say that he doesn’t deserve it, you haven’t been paying attention to his foreign policy.  After all, [...]

  I grew up playing the game, Rush ‘n Attack, on my 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System.  Basically this was a game where you were an American soldier fighting your way across Russian landscapes killing Commies with a knife.  From this game alone I think I am pretty much brainwashed to distrust Russians.  The nice thing [...]

It is typical for Americans nowadays to be increasingly pessimistic about the future prosperity of our nation.  After all, the current economic recession is blatant proof that free market capitalism is fatally flawed and that centrally-planned economics is the way of the future.  It is also typical for Americans to believe that we are increasingly [...]

  Iran’s election results are in, and the winner of this election cycle’s Rock ‘em Sock ‘em tournament is Mahmoud Adiminijad!  Man what a fight!  And folks, things are just starting to heat up!  Even though the Grand Ayatollah was at the controls of each fighter, spectators are now claiming the fight was rigged. Taking [...]

But the most important message to the Europeans will be that Europe is where you go for photo opportunities, but Turkey is where you go to do the business of geopolitics. -George Friedman In one of my weekly email updates from Stratfor, there was an analysis of Obama’s trip to Europe.  Of course the American [...]

  It looks like over the last few months, we have found a strategy for fighting Al Qaeda that works pretty well: Shooting them with missiles.  Who would have thought that having intelligence operative locate high value targets in their operation and then have the same intelligence operatives arrange for Hellfire missile strikes on the [...]