On Monday, President Donald Trump revealed many substantive changes to U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, but the longest war in U.S. history cannot be won without confronting narco-terrorism. After 16 years and billions of U.S. dollars spent, Afghanistan now supplies more than 75 percent of the world’s heroin and the region hosts…
After 16 Years of War, Afghanistan Still World’s Heroin Supplier…
The Apprentices: John McCain’s Foreign Policy Club…
John McCain likes to joke that any senator not under investigation or detoxification sees himself as a candidate for president — in other words, not the type who would normally seek out professional mentorship. And yet, for many senators — past and present — that’s exactly the word they use to describe their relationship…
LIVE FEED from the White House: Trump’s Address to the Nation Tonight at 9:00pm EST/EDT…
T-Room here: Trump is screwed no matter what in Afghanistan. Ditto with Pakistan. But we’ll learn what he has to say about North Korea and maybe more…
The Linear Mindset In U.S. Foreign Policy by Michael Brenner…
There are features of how the United States makes and executes foreign policy that help to explain why Washington is repeatedly thrown into confusion by unforeseen developments. Most significant is a certain linearity of thinking and action. It takes literally the proposition that since the shortest distance between two points is a straight line…
Gorka on Developing Afghan Strategy: ‘We Want to Start from Scratch’…
“First the question is: what is the U.S. national interest in Afghanistan? When we understand that, then we can tell you what our presence in Afghanistan will be like,” explained Dr. Sebastian Gorka, a deputy assistant to the president in the office of the chief strategist. “Is it going to be small special forces outposts? […]
Top Inspector Urges Probe: Possible Link Between Afghan Opium and U.S. Heroin Epidemic…
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John Sopko, declared: I don’t know if there’s a link, but it seems to me somebody ought to be looking at that at DEA or somewhere else in the Department of Justice [DOJ] … It just seems somebody should do […]
CNN Crashes and Burns with ‘Exclusive’ Report on Russia Arming the Taliban…
On July 25, CNN published an alarming report: Two videos obtained exclusively by the cable news network appear to suggest that the Russian government is covertly arming the Taliban fighters that have slowly returned to Afghanistan since the end of NATO combat operations there in 2014. The report, authored by Nick Paton Walsh and Masoud […]
Are America’s Wars Just and Moral? by Patrick Buchanan…
“One knowledgeable official estimates that the CIA-backed fighters may have killed or wounded 100,000 Syrian soldiers and their allies,” writes columnist David Ignatius. Given that Syria’s prewar population was not 10 percent of ours, this is the equivalent of a million dead and wounded Americans. What justifies America’s participation in this slaughter?…
Former U.S. Soldier Blasts Canada for Massive Payout to Ex-Gitmo Detainee Who Blinded Him…
A retired U.S. Special Forces soldier accused Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of treason after the government of Canada issued an approximately $8 million settlement to the former al Qaeda militant who blinded him and killed another American commando during a firefight in Afghanistan in 2002, Fox News reports. “I don’t see this as anything […]
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