by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 20, 2015 | Foreign Policy
Poor Neville Chamberlain believed he could trust Hitler. He was wrong. But I don’t think I’m wrong about Stalin. —Winston Churchill. Remark to his cabinet ministers, February 23, 1945, quoted from the diary of Hugh Dalton. Churchill understood the threat posed by...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 20, 2015 | Foreign Policy
If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 20, 2015 | Foreign Policy
Executive Orders 12036 (President Carter), 11905 (President Ford) and 12333 (President Reagan) prohibit United States intelligence agencies from sponsoring or carrying out assassinations. These are absolutely correct; a free people should never be ashamed of anything...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 20, 2015 | Foreign Policy
As to those monsters who, under the title of sovereigns, render themselves the scourges and horror of the human race, they are savage beasts, whom every brave man may justly exterminate from the face of the earth. —Emerich de Vattel. The Law of Nations, 1758....
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 20, 2015 | Foreign Policy
Arbitrary power in a single person has made greater havoc in human nature, and thinned mankind more, than all the beasts of prey and all the plagues and earthquakes that ever were … . A bear, a lion, or a tiger, may now and then pick up single men in a wood, or … an...
