Category Archives: Foreign Policy
Padre Steve Reviews “The Wounded Giant: America’s Armed Forces in an Age of Austerity” by Michael O’Hanlon
The Wounded Giant: America’s Armed Forces in an Age of Austerity (An eSpecial from The Penguin Press) • Format: Kindle Edition • File Size: 1685 KB • Publisher: The Penguin Press (November 15, 2011) I was recently asked to do … Continue reading
A Weekend of Surprises and Not : Packers Lose, Colts Win and Kim Jong-Il Dies; Tebow finally Loses and Padre Steve keeps on Trucking…
Packed away Wow what a Sunday…. The Green Bay Packers who had not lost a game for a year lost to the lowly Kansas City Chiefs who had just fired their Head Coach on Monday. It is actually fascinating because … Continue reading
Filed under football, Foreign Policy, History
The War that No One wants to Fight: Pakistan 2011
Supply Lines in Peril This weekend there was an altercation on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in which somewhere between 24 and 28 Pakistani soldiers were killed during a NATO airstrike. Afghan military and regional government officials are saying that Afghan soldiers … Continue reading
Filed under Foreign Policy, History, iraq,afghanistan, Military, Politics
November 1918: The Month that Changed the World
November 1918 In November 1918 a world was ending and a new one beginning. The Great War which had begun in August 1914 following the assassination of the heir apparent to the Throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire wife on June … Continue reading
Gaddafi is Dead so what happens Now?
“We announce to the world that Qaddafi has been killed at the hands of the revolution. It is a historic moment. It is the end of tyranny and dictatorship. Qaddafi has met his fate.” Abdel Hafez Ghoga, spokesman for the National … Continue reading
Filed under Foreign Policy, History, middle east

