Here are the Blogs in the G. Murphy Donovan category.
Thursday, 14 February 2019

by G. Murphy Donovan
“The lady doth protest, too much, methinks.” - WS
Surely the Super Bowl game itself wasn’t a fail; if you like defense and fourth quarter suspense.
What’s not to like about the New England Patriots, America’s team it seems. Tom Brady and Jules Edelman, just as ...Read More...
Posted on 02/14/2019 1:26 PM by G. Murphy Donovan
Saturday, 5 January 2019

by G. Murphy Donovan
“There are some assholes in the world that just need to be shot.” – James Mattis
Foreign policy in the Trump era is a tug-of-war, a test of wills between national pragmatists and global utopians. Binary equations might be simplistic, but if it has done nothing else, the ...Read More...
Posted on 01/05/2019 9:25 AM by G. Murphy Donovan
Tuesday, 4 September 2018

by G. Murphy Donovan
If I want to, I can take Kiev in two weeks.” - Vladimir Putin
After WWII, Soviet Communists played an outsized role in American Intelligence operations, threat analysis, and defense budgets. If America didn’t have the Soviets or Russians as straw men, we probably wouldn’t ...Read More...
Posted on 09/04/2018 10:25 AM by G. Murphy Donovan
Monday, 9 April 2018

by G. Murphy Donovan
Celebrity is the knife that cuts two ways; fame on the left, shame on the right.
David Hogg is learning that lesson today. Alas, Mister Hogg is a child trying to navigate puberty on national television. He casts himself as a victim, a “survivor,” a spokesman, if not a ...Read More...
Posted on 04/09/2018 8:59 AM by G. Murphy Donovan
Tuesday, 16 January 2018

by G. Murphy Donovan
“There are three “musts” that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.” - Albert Ellis
Branding is everything if you are in the “activist” business.
More than a few bizarre brands are trending these days. Black Lives Matter ...Read More...
Posted on 01/16/2018 3:07 PM by G. Murphy Donovan
Tuesday, 19 December 2017

by G. Murphy Donovan
Tone is always set at the top.
The early years of the 21st Century may come to be known as the era of invective. One candidate in the 2016 presidential election maligned voters as a “basket of deplorables.” That slur may have prompted enough indignation to give Donald ...Read More...
Posted on 12/19/2017 9:53 AM by G. Murphy Donovan
Friday, 15 December 2017

Together Again
by G. Murphy Donovan
Say what you will about Donald Trump, but beyond ego, bluster, and stable manners; you will often find the courage of truth, a kind of candor too painful to ignore. The recent “official” recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital is a dramatic example ...Read More...
Posted on 12/15/2017 4:42 AM by G. Murphy Donovan
Friday, 6 October 2017

And other prophylactics
by G. Murphy Donovan
“Those capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.” - Spooner
Mendacity is the currency of modern American politics. Truth, it seems, is now a function of what an advocate is willing to sell and gulls are willing to buy. Words like ...Read More...
Posted on 10/06/2017 5:03 AM by G. Murphy Donovan
Thursday, 31 August 2017

Iconoclasm on the Left
by G. Murphy Donovan
Washington, DC, 2017 Inauguration Day riots
A few years after the Martin Luther King riots of 1968, I was driving through Harlem in upper Manhattan. At several traffic lights I was greeted by a corner chorus of “right on man, Chocolate City.” ...Read More...
Posted on 08/31/2017 8:08 AM by G. Murphy Donovan
Monday, 22 May 2017

by G. Murphy Donovan
In April, I wrote a piece for the Small Wars Journal, “Why We Lose,” that recommended some new initiatives that might change the vectors of foreign policy under the Trump administration. The principal recommendation for NATO reform was to expel Turkey, recognize Kurdistan, ...Read More...
Posted on 05/22/2017 6:08 AM by G. Murphy Donovan
Monday, 10 April 2017

by G. Murphy Donovan
“Our values (sic) will prevail, never giving in to terror,” - Theresa May
The fight against Islamic terror has two faces today, public relations and strategic hokum. The recent meeting of the ministers of the Global Coalition on the Defeat of ISIS in Washington illustrates ...Read More...
Posted on 04/10/2017 5:20 AM by G. Murphy Donovan
Monday, 13 March 2017

by G. Murphy Donovan
Barack Obama era national security acolytes, now serving under Donald Trump, are not doing much to help with or clarify American foreign policy or national security futures.
The Ummah provides the best example.
Just days after the Trump inauguration, the newly minted ...Read More...
Posted on 03/13/2017 7:59 AM by G. Murphy Donovan
Saturday, 11 March 2017

Business as Usual?
by G. Murphy Donovan
Donald Trump has only been in office for a couple of months. Any performance evaluation to date is probably premature. Nonetheless, early on, there are some good and bad omens. The good news is domestic. President Trump seems to be focused on health ...Read More...
Posted on 03/11/2017 8:07 AM by G. Murphy Donovan
Sunday, 26 February 2017

by G. Murphy Donovan
Regime change zealots are now working the home front. Billy Kristol, erstwhile editor of white blight and right fright at the Weekly Standard, says that he would rather have the “deep state” than the Trump state. If you ever wondered why neo-conservatives are often confused ...Read More...
Posted on 02/26/2017 7:46 AM by G. Murphy Donovan
Tuesday, 14 February 2017

by G. Murphy Donovan
No stereotype is possible without elements of truth. Some received clichés, however, are more reliable than others. Take Ireland and Germany for example; where journalists shed the guise of civility recently to validate long-standing national tropes, fake Irish piety and ...Read More...
Posted on 02/14/2017 7:20 AM by G. Murphy Donovan
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