Doug Bandow

"When the inevitable crisis hits, it will be even more difficult to reach a rational solution. Better to start now with the misnamed Defense Department." ~Doug Bandow

"Xi expects business as well as people to serve the CCP. As authoritarian controls metastasize throughout the economy, everyone suffers." ~Doug Bandow

"Serious efforts to control deficits and debt will require a series of politically painful decisions. The only way to make such unpalatable fiscal sacrifices possible is to kill all the sacred cows, including the Pentagon." ~ Doug Bandow

"Even the Biden Treasury Department labels the present financial path as 'unsustainable.' Refusing to look at so-called entitlements, most importantly Medicare and Social Security, ensures growing outlays, deficits, and debt." ~ Doug Bandow

"The US economy no longer can sustain a policy of endless war. Rising interest rates highlight the dismal state of Uncle Sam’s finances. Fiscal reality, as well as good sense, tells the US to focus on its own security." ~ Doug Bandow

"The better strategy would be aid short of war. Today the US and democratic states should be making conflict less likely by arming Taiwan, insisting that it take its own defense seriously." ~ Doug Bandow

"The best way to enhance America’s security is for its defense-dependents to graduate and take care of themselves and their own regions. With the US off the peninsula, Pyongyang wouldn’t much care about affairs in Washington." ~ Doug Bandow

"America’s major allies, in the main, are worthy friends: liberal, democratic societies and valuable economic partners with deep cultural and historical connections to the US. That doesn’t entitle them to a cheap ride on the American people." ~ Doug Bandow

"To make up lost revenue, the US industry may become more dependent on government largesse and ultimately less vibrant and dominating. Ultimately, making policy more like China risks turning US industry into something more like China’s." ~ Doug Bandow

"The best that can be said of Xi is that he values stability, and would not intentionally plunge China into anything like the chaos in which Mao thrived." ~ Doug Bandow