Category Archives: Foreign
Invading Caravan
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President Trump ordered “roughly 5,800 troops” to the Mexican border. And he says “they have built a very beautiful fence.” But the real mission: stop a Central American immigrant invasion force. The invading caravan crossed Mexico with Patton Third Army-like speed. And now they’re advancing toward American lines outside Tijuana. So stay tuned.
Bureaucratic Patriotism
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World leaders gathered in Paris over the weekend to commemorate Armistice Day. It occurred 100 years ago. French president Macron used the occasion to trash Trump’s idea of nationalism. He called it a “betrayal of patriotism.”
So President Trump went into a snit. He insisted his helicopter couldn’t fly in the rain and skipped a cemetery visit.
Earlier Macron and Angela Merkel embraced patriotism for an E.U. army that would stand up to China and America.
So, classicist author Victor Davis Hanson offered a history lesson about French leaders and nationalism.
Oh, and a 101 year old French woman mistook Chancellor Merkel for the 60 something wife of the the 40 year old Macron.
Saudis Admit Khashoggi Murdered
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The Saudis now admit that the journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. They claim he died in a fist fight.
But the Turks (no friends of press freedom either) say otherwise.
Mike Allen in Axios quotes a “Republican source” on “the reason President Trump is buying the Saudis’ story: “Constraining Iran is the priority and Saudi is a critical ally in that effort. That ‘trumps’ the horrible human rights violation.”
9/11 Book Seventeen Years Later
My how times change… Here are a few cartoons from my 9/11 book published in 2002. Click on any of the images to get a readable image in a new tab.
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