Author: CBD

Two hundred years ago, the United States told the rest of the world to stay out of our backyard. It seemed reasonable then, and it seems reasonable now. While the Monroe Doctrine said nothing about expansionist policies of our own government, it was an explicit recognition of spheres of influence. Fast forward 200 years and…

A $500 IED pins down an American armored column for hours…a Muslim lunatic with an explosive vest necessitates a $50,000,000 security upgrade at a border crossing….a $35,000 drone destroys (maybe) a $10,000,000 Leopard II tank…a $500 Qassam rocket requires at least one $50,000 Tamir missile to shoot it down. One of the glories of market…

Israel is the target of vicious, coordinated attacks from many players…from the United Nations and its many satellite organizations to a world media that are mostly staffed by post-modern drones mouthing their Marxist professor’s propaganda about the evil of the Zionist occupation. Of course the current defensive war against Hamas is the proximate cause of…

Since the beginning of the Gaza war, American troops in Iraq and Syria have been attacked at least 100 times, with a grand total of four responses, including yesterdays “necessary and proportionate strikes.” Dozens of American servicemen have been injured, but the Biden junta is minimizing their injuries, claiming that until yesterday, all have returned…

It is tempting to assume that every technological answer is the best answer, but there are tried and true methods of doing some things that resist all attempts at modernizing them. Voting is one of those. It’s hard to beat a simple paper ballot for robustness and imperviousness to cheating. Does anyone think that they…

The concept that the Arabs living in the West Bank and Gaza deserve autonomy in their own governance, much less a state of their own, was shown on October 7th to be ridiculous. And even after two months of of pummeling by the Israeli military, support for Hamas and their subhuman brand of terrorism is…

Washington is challenging California (the perennial winner of the Lunatic State award) for top spot on the list of the stupidest, most freedom-stealing states in the union. From selective enforcement of laws against violent crime, onerous gun control, forced conversion of children into the Sustainable Organic Church of The Carbon Apocalypse, celebration of every psychiatric…

It’s difficult to take California seriously as anything other than an unlimited source of ridiculous, freedom-robbing government action. But this one may be the pinnacle of the stupid, authoritarian, post-modern, woke foolishness that oozes from Sacramento. But it is also a cautionary tale of what may very well be coming down the pike for the…

Petraeus says Israel should try U.S.-style counterinsurgency in Gaza “You have to, therefore, destroy them,” Petraeus said. Israel cannot allow Hamas to reconstitute as a militant group and it also must dismantle the group’s political wing, he argued, adding that military force alone won’t accomplish that goal. “But there are some big ideas missing,” Petraeus…

There is an argument that America should simply stay out of the Middle East; that our foreign entanglements are a burden…financially, militarily, socially, geopolitically. It is a tempting one to embrace because of our current financial and political woes.In a perfect world that would be reasonable. The Middle East is a nasty and brutal part…