Democratic President-elect Joe Biden on Saturday nominated U.S. foreign policy veteran Wendy Sherman, a key negotiator of the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, to be the No. 2 official at the State Department.
Political leadership at Pentagon owes allegiance to the Constitution, not a person in the White House (Commentary)
Updated Dec 29, 2020;
Posted Dec 29, 2020
FILE - This March 27, 2008 file photo shows the Pentagon in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP
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By Francis Conole
Francis Conole is a former candidate for Congress in New York’s 24th District. He is an Iraq War veteran, a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, and a former Policy Advisor to the Secretary of Defense. He is also a Commander in the U.S. Navy Reserves where he is the Commanding Officer of a unit supporting one of the Carrier Strike Groups. The views expressed are those of the individual only and not those of the Department of Defense.
Veteran Diplomat: U.S. Confronts China to Protect Supremacy, Not Security
Veteran US diplomat Chas Freeman says that despite talk of a New Cold War between the US and China, the US in reality is reacting aggressively to a rising Chinese power whose economic gains threaten US global supremacy. “We’ve become accustomed over the past 75 years to be the overlord in East Asia,” Freeman says.
By Aaron MATÉ
Chas Freeman, who served in top State Department positions and as Richard Nixon’s chief interpreter on his historic 1972 visit to China, discusses the state of US-China relations and flashpoints of conflict such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Xinjiang.
“The Last Platoon” from Bing West, Outstanding Novel of Afghanistan
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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise,
because it is our duty. Saint Augustine
Bing West was born to be a Marine. When he was just two years old, his two uncles were in the Marine Corps and fought on Guadalcanal. Later, his family allowed a baseball team of Marines to use the attic of their Dorchester, Massachusetts home as a kind of clubhouse.
There they’d be able to talk among themselves about things they’d never have been able to say to their families. Bing’s mother thought they’d make great babysitters.