NATO members and Japan depend on American troops to defend them. Yet they both support and fund the International Criminal Court even as it unlawfully targets the American troops putting their lives on the line for them. Published June 16, 2020
How different the current situation might have been had China's rulers said early on: "A virus that came from a bat has gotten loose in Wuhan. We're sorry. Published June 2, 2020
A century ago, Vladimir Lenin wrote a book titled "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism." I doubt it occurred to him that imperialism might one day become the highest stage of communism. Yet that day is here. Published May 26, 2020
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his new coalition government now face a daunting decision. The Trump administration has indicated that it would not object if Israelis were to extend sovereignty to parts of the West Bank. Published May 19, 2020
The current global health and economic crisis reveals -- to those with eyes that see -- the startling extent to which the weeds and wild critters have overrun the fruits and flowers. Published May 12, 2020
The United States, Germany and other major contributors to the IMF ought to demand that before any checks are written, Hezbollah disarms -- that, from now on, it seeks power based on the ballots it can garner rather than the bullets it can fire. Published May 5, 2020
Communists, revolutionary Islamists and other proponents of despotic ideologies consider life and death no big deal. After all, they kill people all the time -- civilians and their own subjects very much included. Published April 28, 2020
It now seems unlikely that the virus destroying lives and livelihoods around the world began in a wildlife-for-supper market in Wuhan. More plausible: That it began in a laboratory in that same Chinese city. Published April 21, 2020
The White House website, www.whitehouse.gov, featured an odd article last Friday. Its headline: "Amid a Pandemic, Voice of America Spends Your Money to Promote Foreign Propaganda." Published April 14, 2020
Microbes are changing our lives, our economy, our culture. You should know -- though it will provide no consolation -- that it has ever been thus. Published April 7, 2020
If Iran's rulers want support from the "international community," they ought to become members in good standing of that community -- or at least stop their most destructive activities. Published March 31, 2020
In 2017, Fatou Bensouda announced her intention to investigate alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan. This month, after drawn-out deliberations, the ICC announced that the investigation would go forward. Published March 24, 2020
Terrorists, criminals, and their neo-imperialist patrons in Tehran have been bringing death and destruction to Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Gaza -- whomever and whatever they touch Published March 17, 2020
David Kilcullen devotes much of his book to exploring how the dragons (Moscow and Beijing) and the snakes (Tehran, Pyongyang and non-state jihadi groups) have learned from each other, and become more dangerous in the process. Published March 10, 2020
Jimmy Lai was arrested last week. Conviction could mean five years in prison. Or more: "We have every reason to believe that the trial of traitors like Lai has only just begun," threatened an editorial in China's official Xinhua News Agency. Published March 3, 2020
The goal is to reach a "political settlement to end the war in Afghanistan, reduce United States and Allied Forces presence, and ensure that no terrorist group ever uses Afghan soil to threaten the United States or our allies." Published February 25, 2020
Last week, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, published a blacklist of 112 companies operating in the West Bank, 94 of them Israeli, six American and 12 from other countries. Published February 18, 2020
The day after the State of the Union, President Trump met with Juan Guaido to discuss how "to expedite a democratic transition in Venezuela that will end the ongoing crisis," according to a White House press statement. Published February 11, 2020
Some Palestinians have long dreamed of creating, for the first time in history, their own nation-state. Others have long dreamed of exterminating Israel, the re-created nation-state of the Jewish people. The second dream has prevented realization of the first. Published February 4, 2020
Americans are smart enough to figure out how to make fighting the United States militarily -- conventionally, asymmetrically or in other ways -- stupid. Published January 28, 2020
