“The Pentagon’s ‘honeypot’: A webcast.”
Molly McCartney on ‘the stunning numbers.’ Today The Scrum welcomes the author and journalist Molly McCartney. Given McCartney’s principal subject, I cannot think of anyone more pertinent to invite into our pages. Our discussion focused on what I and many others consider the…
“Our cold, two-front war.”
We’re already losing this one. Co-authored with James W. Carden Last week marked excellent progress for those hoping the Biden administration will lead America into a new Cold War—this one to be waged on two fronts across both oceans. “Ca-ching!” ring…
“30 seconds over Syria.”
The revenge of the Obamanauts. Welp. That didn’t take long. Late in February, little more than a month into the Biden presidency—or, perhaps more accurately, the Obama restoration—the Pentagon carried out airstrikes on what it alleged were Iranian proxies active…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Enforcing Orthodoxy
To censor is an act of deprivation, a taking away. To enforce an intolerant orthodoxy is an act of imposition. The two cannot be understood separately from one another. YouTube’s decision to remove a Consortium NewsCN Live! segment on Feb. 24 formidably takes its…
“Another dissident colonel.”
An exchange with Douglas Macgregor. Two centuries ago, the British statesman John Bright warned against “following visionary phantoms in all parts of the world while your own country is becoming rotten within.” It is symptomatic of how diseased American strategic…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Blundering Biden Team
What occurred between Washington and Moscow last week, and at a hotel in Anchorage, bears a significance that we must not miss. “Biden is a national embarrassment on foreign policy,” a colleague wrote in a note over the weekend. This…