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National Columnists

Iranian regime no friend to Middle East peace

The proverb “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” goes back to Roman times. But being repeated through the centuries doesn’t mean it’s always true. Recently, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump ordered warplanes to bomb Iranian nuclear development ...

We need to make America clean again

Following trips to different countries over many years I have longed to return home and hear these words from an immigration officer: “Welcome back to the United States.” Something felt different this time. After three weeks away - two days in Doha and the rest in Vietnam, Hong Kong and ...

Israel or US can ensure non-nuclear Iran

It is hard even to digest the incredible train of events of the last few days in the Middle East. Iran had been reduced to an anemic, performance-art missile attack on our base in Qatar – the last Parthian shot from a terrified regime, desperate for an out – and a ceasefire. Iran would ...

Iran’s people should be desiring peace

After decades of the Iranian terrorist dictatorship voicing grave threats to global security, Israel and the United States have ultimately resolved to take decisive action to mitigate the threat posed by Iran’s nuclear weapons program. What was once perceived as a suicidal scenario for our ...

Let’s be clear what Iran strike debate is about

Even Americans who loathe President Donald Trump should be capable of seeing that the U.S. and the world are safer without a nuclear-capable Iran. But Trump derangement is blinding them. Saturday night, Trump and the U.S. military executed a “spectacularly successful” precision bombing of ...

Even ‘established’ theories can be questioned

Last week, science writer Christopher Plain published a story in the online magazine The Debrief (which describes its subject matter as “Science, Tech and Defense for the Rebelliously Curious”) about fossilized human footprints found in a desiccated lakebed in White Sands, New Mexico. ...