Month: March 2026

If we ever needed proof that time travel is impossible, I think we have it now.

Surely, if people could go back in time, somebody would have warned us what would happen if we elected you-know-who into office.

Is there a flaw in my logic?

In December 1998, the U.S. and England conducted Operation Desert Fox, a 70 hour bombing campaign against Iraq, with the goal of destroying Saddam Hussein’s missile development program and chemical/biological weapons capabilities. The operation was widely seen as a failure. Some even said that for the U.S. President, the entire operation had been an attempt to distract from scandal at home.

In the aftermath, Gen. Peter de la Billiere, a former head of the SAS who commanded British forces in the 1991 Gulf war, pointed out that aerial bombardments are not effective in driving people into submission. Instead, they tend to make them more defiant.

Now the U.S. has a new desert fox in the White House. And this one has plenty of scandals at home that he doesn’t want us to think about.

So here’s a question: While the desert fox is distracting everybody by dropping bombs on countries half way around the world, who is guarding the hen house?

Today is the anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Peace Corps in 1961 by president John F. Kennedy. It sends volunteer Americans to communities in partner countries around the world to provide skilled workers in education, health, entrepreneurship, women’s empowerment, and community development. Volunteers are expected to respect local customs, learn the prevailing language, and live in the same conditions as the people of the host country.

The Peace Corps represents a beautiful vision of how the United States can help the world. It is a vision that, I fear, would be completely incomprehensible to our current self-proclaimed “peace president”.

Imagine simply offering to actually help people in other lands, in a spirit of humility and mutual trust, rather than killing them or blowing them up. The entire concept would likely strike him as very odd.

What an idiot.