The Bitter Fruits of Interventionism

The Bitter Fruits of Interventionism

Make America Think Again! - Share Pat's Columns...

One of the principal casualties of Kabul is the establishment’s grand vision of a U.S. foreign policy for the new century — where liberalism and democratic capitalism have won the battle for the future, and the U.S., victorious in the Cold War, would lead the world in the realization of …

Read more…


Make America Think Again! - Share Pat's Columns...
JFK -- Accept Our Diverse World as It Is

JFK — Accept Our Diverse World as It Is

Make America Think Again! - Share Pat's Columns...

Kennedy was asking us to recognize that the world consists not only of democrats but also of autocrats, dictatorships, military regimes, monarchs and politburos, and the goal of U.S. foreign policy was not to convert them into political replicas of the USA.    Kennedy was willing to put our political model …

Read more…


Make America Think Again! - Share Pat's Columns...
Is a Cold War II with China Inevitable?

Is a Cold War II with China Inevitable?

Make America Think Again! - Share Pat's Columns...

Beijing is not apologetically but proudly Communist. It believes its system has been proven superior in this century. It does not believe in an equality of ideologies, religions or peoples. It openly rejects American democracy as a failed and failing system… Today, the four premier leaders of The Quad — …

Read more…


Make America Think Again! - Share Pat's Columns...
Ideological Imperialism Is Leading to a Bad End

Ideological Imperialism Is Leading to a Bad End

Make America Think Again! - Share Pat's Columns...

Yet, when it comes to interfering in the affairs of other nations, how sinless, how blameless, are we Americans? When it was learned in 2016 that Russia may have hacked the emails of John Podesta and the DNC, and passed the fruits on to WikiLeaks to aid candidate Donald Trump, …

Read more…


Make America Think Again! - Share Pat's Columns...
Putin's Got His Problems, Too

Putin’s Got His Problems, Too

Make America Think Again! - Share Pat's Columns...

While our Beltway elites are obsessed with Russia and Putin, seeing in them a mortal threat to our democracy, close observers are seeing something else. Before the first Trump-Biden debate, moderator Chris Wallace listed the six subjects that would be covered: The Trump and Biden records, the Supreme Court, COVID-19, …

Read more…


Make America Think Again! - Share Pat's Columns...
A Most Consequential Presidency

A Most Consequential Presidency

Make America Think Again! - Share Pat's Columns...

Trump has also changed the character and composition of the GOP, making it more of a working- and middle-class party. Where George H.W. Bush sought to build a “New World Order” with America as global hegemon and George W. Bush preached a global crusade for democracy “to end tyranny in …

Read more…


Make America Think Again! - Share Pat's Columns...
Coexistence with China or Cold War II?

Coexistence with China or Cold War II?

Make America Think Again! - Share Pat's Columns...

On China, Trump is the first realist we have had in the Oval Office in decades. But both parties colluded in the buildup of China… The mighty malevolent China we face today was made in the USA. Under fire for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump, his …

Read more…


Make America Think Again! - Share Pat's Columns...