No appeal to international law, universal human values, common sense, God or the devil will force the United States to refuse the idea of strategic invulnerability in the next hundred years.
After all is said and done, who is really pushing the militarization of the South China Sea, and who is really trying to turn the South China Sea into a tinderbox?
Regardless of his name and his 11th-hour pledge of allegiance, [Omar Mateen] belongs to a deeply entrenched (and rather shocking) history of American violence committed against citizens in public places.