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AMERICANGREATNESS (Liz Sheld) - Morning Greatness: Trump Withholding Texas GOP Senate Race Endorsement Over SAVE Act

Good Tuesday morning. Here is what’s on President Trump’s agenda today: 8:00 AM THE PRESIDENT participates in Executive Time 3:00 PM THE PRESIDENT participates in […] Source

AMERICANGREATNESS (Auguste Meyrat) - The Art of the Decapitation

With the dust literally settling and an acknowledgment that the situation could unexpectedly change, Operation Epic Fury appears to be a success. The U.S. and […] Source

AMERICANGREATNESS (Victor Davis Hanson) - Our Long Road to War With Iran

Until last year, for some 46 years, Iran enjoyed a North Korea-like reputation in the heart of the Middle East: always unpredictable, reckless, dangerous, inevitably […] Source

THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Taki) - The End of the War-Hero Writer

Expect no great man of letters to emerge from the bloodied fields of Iran. The post The End of the War-Hero Writer appeared first on The American Conservative .

Culture The End of the War-Hero Writer Expect no great man of letters to emerge from the bloodied fields of Iran. Modern warfare does not a good movie make. Nor a good book, I suspect. Drones zipping about like flies and being chased by other drones and interceptors are not the same as John Wayne charging with his Marines onto the beach at Iwo Jima, not to mention Gary Cooper as Sergeant York picking off the Germans on the Western Front. Old-style warfare tended to get the creative juices flowing throughout history. Papa Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald became stars following the First World War, with their war-background books, as did Norman Mailer, Irwin Shaw, and James Jones following the Second World War.  It is no longer fashionable…Open

THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Brandan Buck) - Wars Abroad Lead to Suppression at Home

Supporters of the assault on Iran were quick to smear critics as traitors. The post Wars Abroad Lead to Suppression at Home appeared first on The American Conservative .

Foreign Affairs Wars Abroad Lead to Suppression at Home Supporters of the assault on Iran were quick to smear critics as traitors. President George Washington’s often-read but rarely heeded Farewell Address includes a passage that has remained perennially relevant in American life. Reflecting on the domestic costs of entangling alliances, Washington warned  Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second [reinforce] the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots, who may resist the intrigues of the favorite, are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence…Open