"having a plausible locally beneficent option friendly to USA put in place"
"boots on the ground aren't necessary"

The third author went to the best K-12 school in Washington before going to Columbia.

One man decides he knows better than everyone else, makes a big list of grievances, and refuses to take it back. He takes advantage of a revolution in media technology to spread his ideas, which upend the old order and replace it with decades upon decades of turmoil.

I wonder how much influence the Evangelical right still has over Trump. There will be non-stop clamoring from the dispensationalists and their offshoots about Turkey and Iran being the armies of the north and east, respectively.

Tapping the sign

Someone is going to flip Ozaukee County one of these days, and the Scott Walker types will completely melt down.

I'm worried that stuff like this will work.

Paine's words still sting 243 years later, just swap in America for England.

This was the most predictable thing in the world.

The graph in the preview is for a different question relating to crypto. This is the graph for the acceptability of the killing.