Archive for the ‘Foreign Affairs’ Category

Declare the Word in Zion: America and the Middle East

Relations between the United States and the Middle East have always been complicated.  Given that the Middle East enjoys complicated relationships with every other region in the world as well—including itself—this should come as no surprise. On 9/11, however, many Americans were surprised.  In...
February 22nd, 2010 | Book Reviews, Foreign Affairs, Global War on Terrorism, Judaism, Media, Politics, Religion | Read More

A Parting of the Ways

President Obama has poured billions of tax dollars into a government take-over of the Auto Industry.  Fair Enough.  He is pushing through a Socialist agenda for a national healthcare system, which will effectively strip us of our options with regard to our medical care, while simultaneously creating...
June 18th, 2009 | Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, RML, Social Justice | Read More

A Time for Silence

President Obama should not speak in support of the Iranians protesting the recent presidential elections.  In fact, no US official, in power or out of it, should publicly support them. First, it’s redundant.  Is there any doubt that anyone in Iran (much less, the world) knows whose side the Americans...
June 18th, 2009 | Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, RML, Rights Reason & Religion, Social Justice | Read More

Aid Versus Trade – Lunch w/ TED

“Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the former finance minister of Nigeria, sums up four days of intense discussion on aid versus trade on the closing day of TEDGlobal 2007, and shares a personal story explaining her own commitment to this cause.”  In the context of typical conversation on the topic,...
May 27th, 2009 | Foreign Affairs, Lunch with TED, Social Justice | Read More

The Media Manifesto

In Sunday’s edition of the New York Times, an editorial with the pretense of being yet another rant on the Bush administration’s torture policies appeared with the eye-catching and eyebrow-raising title, “The Torturers’ Manifesto.” Granted, the article was sparked by the...
April 19th, 2009 | Foreign Affairs, Media, Politics | Read More

What is to be Done?

America is, perhaps now more than ever, facing difficult decisions regarding a close neighbor. The country of Mexico is, to be frank, a mess. Cartels are gaining control of entire cities, police forces, and local economies. In some of the most violent border towns, finding bodies in the streets in the...
March 17th, 2009 | Foreign Affairs, Politics | Read More

A Long Overdue Justice

The Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923 led to the death of over one million Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Empire. It shattered the vibrant Armenian culture and destroyed the lives of countless thousands of people. In fact, most genocide experts consider it to be the first modern genocide and the...
March 3rd, 2009 | Foreign Affairs | Read More

Sub-Standard Ethics

It’s really remarkable how much we rely on medicine these days. Never before in history have so many people relied on so many different medications; in fact, it’s estimated that nearly half of all Americans take at least one prescription drug. This statistic becomes even more alarming when...
January 29th, 2009 | Creation Care, Foreign Affairs, Science | Read More

Israel, Hamas, and the looter mentality

On January 10, 2009, a rally swept along Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. Though billed as a “pro-Palestine” rally, in reality, it was far more anti-Israel and anti-America than anything else. I went with a group of fellow bloggers from the Heading Right station on www.BlogTalkRadio.com....
January 14th, 2009 | Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Judaism | Read More

This I No Longer Believe:
5 Lessons Learned from the Iraq War

Cultural historian Paul Fussell once noted that no one prior to World War I could have conceived of how many illusions it would shatter by the time it ended. No war since has affected the world so profoundly, much less the comparatively insignificant war in Iraq. But Fussell’s observation has led...
July 26th, 2007 | Foreign Affairs | Read More