Foreign Policy Handbook

To End the War,

We Must Learn the Theory & Practice of War...

I have been working on compiling a "Foreign Policy Handbook" for everyone to read as a guide to understanding the different theories and practices that to go developing foreign policy and why nonintervention is essential for American Foreign Policy to be Realist. 

This is a work in progress, so if anyone would like to contribute to, or offer suggestions to the Handbook, feel free to contact me at: roy.antoun@yaliberty.org 

You can snag a PDF copy of the handbook HERE. 

The Dangers of "Wartime Powers"

A few weeks ago at CPAC, a Friday panel was assembled to answer the question: “Does security trump freedom?” Among the panelists were Robert “Skip” Ash, who teaches a course on “national security law” at Regent University, and also serves at the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) as their Senior Litigation Counsel for National Security Law. The deck was stacked beforehand: The ACLJ claims to be “focused on National Security issues and waging an effective and constitutional war on terrorism” (Constitutional? What Constitution?), and the debate moderator was Jay Sekulow, who serves as the organization’s Chief Counsel.

In his opening statements to the audience, Ash commented: “[The troops] also wonder why the President of the United States cannot bring himself to admit that the United States is in a long-term war with enemy jihadists, who seek to destroy us.” [Emphasis mine.] Several panelists, including the chief architect of the Patriot Act, went on to defend the PATRIOT Act as a set of wartime powers necessary to protecting freedom; as former Attorney General John Ashcroft had explained earlier in the day, “the purpose of security is to reinforce and enhance freedom.” Or, as George Orwell famously listed as a slogan of “the Party": Freedom is Slavery.

When holding the hammer...

"When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content." - Niccolo Machiavelli

As the United States continues to hold a hammer, everything looks more and more like a nail.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict seems like an ancient battle between good and evil, where both good and evil are relative to the agent.  But people often misname the crisis:  It should be read “The Israeli-American-Palestinian Conflict” with “American” strategically sandwiched in between the original two contenders. The Middle East has continued to be a hotbed of problems because of unnecessary involvement ever since the West chose to divvy the Ottoman Empire rather than allowing each region to claim its own sovereignty as America did during and after its Revolution. Rather than witnessing the natural evolution of states, the West forced state boundaries, leading to many of the problems we have today.

Team Despot!

It seems the dynamic duo of Mccain and Lieberman have joined forces once again to produce one of the most horrifying pieces of legislation to date.

It's called the "Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010."  A post on xpostfactoid notes on the atrocities of this legislation and provides a link to the bill. If passed, this would grant the federal government the legal authority to commit any individual it considered an “enemy combatant” to indefinite detention and suspend Miranda rights.

This bill is a response to the infamous “underwear bomber” incident that happened over the holidays. From 100 years in Iraq if necessary to legal abolition of Habeas Corpus; it seems powermongering is for Senator Mccain what Redbull is for college students cramming for finals.