COMMENTARY
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Methodology
Hagee, McCain and History Methodology (Feb 2008)
Conflict Analysis and Reza Aslan (Feb 2007)
Histories from Ancient to Modern
What is Civilization, a criticism of Will Durant (July 16, 2009)
Wisdom and Antiquity (October 17, 2010)
Political Decline in Ancient Rome(February 23, 2011)
Zealots and Marie Antoinette (June 26, 2010)
Enlightenment and the French Revolution (July 22, 2013)
Most important person in the 20th Century?
Murders and the Communist Manifesto
Churchill's Pearl Harbor Warning
Japan, Roosevelt and Pearl Harbor
Germany's War to Defeat Communism
War and Presidents Truman and Johnson
Credit for the Fall of Communism
The Middle East's Forgotten Refugees
The 1960s viewed by the conservative George H. Nash
Niall Ferguson and the West's Death Spiral
A righteous Iranian hardliner in the year 2015
A Few 20th Century Mistakes
British and French Offensives in 1915-16
Britain, France and Italy at the Peace Conference in 1919
France Contributes to the Rise of Hitler
An Alliance against Aggression
A Less than Perfect United Nations
A Clash of Civilizations?
Clash of Civilizations versus Conflicts among Muslims – revisited (Dec 24, 2012)
Islamic Civilization and Diffusion (Jul 31, 2007)
Clash of Civilizations – a Bad Idea (November 12, 2010)
Jihad for a New Caliphate (2008)
Should Americans Fear Islam? (Oct 4, 2010)
Debate on Islam: So What? (Oct 12, 2010)
War
Success and War: World War II to Afghanistan (Feb 1, 2011)
War and Capitalism (Oct 20, 2007)
Horror, Hamburg and 9/11 (Sep 11, 2002)
Military experience and political wisdom (Jul 23, 2008)
Understanding War (Dec 25, 2008)
War or Peace, Violence or Non-Violence
Violence versus Non-Violence (February 2012)
Victor Davis Hanson and World War I
Military Bases around the World
Syria, 2011-12
Asssad, Violence and Arendt (Oct 25, 2011)
Civil War in Syria (February 22, 2012)
Syria and the Caution of Outsiders (February 28, 2012)
Dealing with Assad (March 2012)
Power Corrupts Bashar and Asma al-Assad (March 25, 2012)
Henry Kissinger and Syria (March 31, 2012)
Failed Negotiations and Violence (April 2, 2012)
Syria and Erica Chenoweth (April 2, 2012)
Assad's Power (April 4, 2012)
Assad's Illusions (April 14, 2012)
Syria: Vapid Descriptions from the Ivory Tower (June 12, 2012)
Assad the Despised (July 9, 2012)
Damascus Offensive (July 24, 2012)
Former Assad supporter in Damascus (July 29, 2012)
Kofi Annan's Plan for Syria, a Fantasy? (March 8 to September 19, 2012)
Population Growth
Montana, the Last Best Place (Nov 12, 2008)
Population Growth (2005-06)
Miscellaneous Ahistorical Stuff
OJ and Oscar (February 16-20, 2013)
Earl Skruggs (March 30, 2012)
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