Editor:

For years, Winston Churchill was considered, like Donald Trump, too bombastic, too much a self-advertiser, a man with a reputation too easily earned to trust to governing. He was mercurial, they said; he had a noisy mind, they complained.

“Churchill will write his name in history. Let us take care he does not write it in blood,” wrote his cabinet colleague, AG Gardiner, prior to the start of World War I. Well, Churchill wrote his name in history with blood in defense of Western civilization. The results make him one of the greatest men of the 20th Century. He fought the Boers and Irish Republicans, yet still made a good, statesman-like peace with each.

Will Trump have the same stuff of greatness? I don’t know, but I do feel increasingly our future will be written in blood, unfortunately. Fighters are wanted because our leaders have been found wanting. You’ll be hearing more from me in writing about this very soon at several high traffic conservative sites plus some more scholarly sites devoted to global security, defense and intelligence. Please stay tuned.

John Ransom

Vung Tau City, Vietnam