by Pat Ryan Are you getting tired of the long, cold winter around here? Just consider the long, cold winter...
The throngs of Egyptians who have taken to the streets in the Arab world’s most populous country are shaking the foundations of regimes across North Africa and the Middle East with scant hope America will emerge from this new crisis with a winning hand, much less breaking even.
by Pat Ryan The pictures are hard to look at, the stories are hard to listen to and the magnitude...
The United States of America was attacked by the Russian Federation. Attacked. Think about it.
by Pat Ryan Like most things in the Middle East the impending train wreck in the Persian Gulf that is...
by Pat Ryan If you think the two-state solution is the annual meeting between the Tennessee Volunteers and the Florida...
By Pat Ryan There’s no better place to start writing a column on international affairs than parked in front of...
Today we posted "Not on the Cover of the Rolling Stone" among the columns here. For those of a different generation who might not have heard the Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show tune you should take a look and listen.
The newest addition to the seemingly unending collection of stories that you just can’t make up is the strange case of General Stanley McChrystal, who until this week was the top military man in Afghanistan directing American and NATO combat forces. The general handed his commander in chief a resignation on Wednesday after the public airing of disparaging comments aimed at American civilian leaders. But there is the unanswered question of why he joined a fight he was sure to lose, and a particularly strange part of the story is the battlefield he chose for the losing campaign. Rolling Stone.