A few weeks ago, a friend of a dear friend asked me, “Does the Balfour Declaration prove the state/country for the Jews did not belong to them and was mostly a Palestinian area under British control?” It’s an interesting question…
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It Sounds To Me Like President Trump Waived His Attorney-Client Privilege
From the Washington Post this evening: “Nevertheless, Trump has repeatedly expressed an eagerness to sit down for a voluntary interview to answer Mueller’s questions — a move [his attorney John] Dowd believed would be a mistake, according to a longtime…
The Firing of Andrew McCabe Is More Than Meets the Eye
By firing McCabe, Trump has significantly bolstered his attorneys’ ability to credibly argue that any testimony McCabe might give which is harmful to Trump’s interests is motivated primarily by McCabe’s desire to get revenge on Trump for stripping away his…
When the Nation Gets Crazy, I Need to Get Back to Basics
Welcome back! It’s been a long time since I’ve published, but there has been lot going on in the world and behind the curtain here at RealGeopolitik. In addition to doing some work in Jordan, I’ve engaged in an absurd…
Food for Thought for Those Who Don’t Like an Uber-Partisan Nation
Most of us have at least one issue about which we feel so strongly that it will often sap reason from our discourse on it. In light of that fact, the following paraphrase from Bloomberg’s Megan McArdle is worth consideration…
Does ISIS Threaten the United States? – The Second of a Series
Cable television is flush with chatter about a potential terrorist threat from ISIS. But put down the remote for a moment and consider this: Contrary to what many in the news are saying, ISIS is not an international terrorist organization…
Does ISIS Threaten the United States? – The First of a Series
The last few months have seen a lot of media chatter about ISIS, the Salafist Muslim extremist group that has taken over large portions of Iraq and Syria. Since ISIS beheaded two American journalists a few weeks ago, the volume…
Quick Take: The Problem With Going After ISIS
U.S. v. ISIS w/boots on the ground = a possible repeat of Bush’s war, and for many of the same reasons that war transpired the way it did. U.S. v. ISIS w/o boots on the ground = a possible repeat…
False Indignation, Anyone?
Sometimes, a little recognition of the obvious is nice, especially when the obvious facts are that the Russians spy on the U.S. and American diplomats (gasp) curse. http://www.lawfareblog.com/2014/02/what-a-bunch-of-babies/#.UvatcF6vylg