Doug Bandow is the Robert A. Taft Fellow at the American Conservative Defense Alliance (www.acdalliance.org) and a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute. A former Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan, he is the author of Foreign Follies: America's New Global Empire (Xulon Press, 2006).
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Constitutional Crisis in Honduras -- Who Cares?
11/11/09
Another good reason for America First. [Read More] |
Alliances as Transmission Belts of War
10/21/09
America must follow George Washington's advice, now more than ever. [Read More] |
Why Are "We" Defending South Korea?
09/08/09
The Cold War is over, after all. [Read More] |
Ukrainian Follies: Creating More Needless Defense Dependents
08/05/09
Why the newest plan to expand NATO is not in America's interests. [Read More] |
Expanding Government Is Destroying Liberty in the European Union
07/06/09
Political centralism has been disastrous for European liberty. [Read More] |
North Korea: Paper Tiger
06/04/09
Despite its bellicose rhetoric, the communist dictatorship is a non-threat to America, and non-intervention is the best policy here, too. [Read More] |
No Nation-Building in Somalia
05/10/09
The pirates are a criminal nuisance, but the U.S. should respond with restraint, deference to the Constitution, and an understanding of past interventionist failures in Somalia. [Read More] |
The Disastrous Embargo on Cuba
04/14/09
Restrictions on travel and trade tend to empower governments and impoverish people. [Read More] |
So-Called Isolationists Are the True Internationalists
03/11/09
The derisive term has long been used to smear non-interventionists, but both national security and international harmony are much better served by foreign policy restraint. [Read More] |
A Practical Foreign Policy Agenda for Obama
02/20/09
The United States should withdraw -- not just from Iraq, but from its entire Cold-War posture -- and move toward non-intervention, honest diplomacy and free trade. [Read More] |
Time for a Defense Policy that Defends America
02/02/09
The United States maintains the costliest defense policy on earth, pursuing one bloody foreign conflict after another, creating enemies and making the nation less safe. We must restore the Founders' vision of a policy that defends the country, encourages commercial and civil exchange between peoples, and limits the government's political and military interventions into other nations' affairs. [Read More] |
