The Fromson File

Those were the dying words uttered by Colonel Walter Kurtz, the half-crazed Special Forces officer portrayed by Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now, the classic war film about Vietnam. It could have been a precursor to Afghanistan or Pakistan. From my encounters in all three countries going back more than 50 years the future is not [...]

If you wonder what you’ll be missing when newspapers vanish, consider two stories that appeared in morning newspapers that have yet to make it to the online geniuses who will decide the content of alternative journalism in the near future. Both examples deal with the infuriating decisions rendered by the bureaucrats in the service of [...]

In an analysis of the foreign policy approaches of both John McCain and Barack Obama, the New York Times says “both men have been forced into surprising detours.” McCain’s perspective is drawn from his experience as a prisoner of war in Hanoi during the Vietnam War. The question rarely ever broached is this: did he [...]