I TRIED TO WARN YOU is a trenchant critique of the march of folly that has characterized the (perhaps terminal) decline of Christendom in the past half century. It is also an invaluable resource of facts, logic, and witticisms with which to explain what is wrong and defend what is right.
Former diplomat and policy analyst James George Jatras has spent a lifetime in the swamp of Washington, DC, fighting the good fight from Foggy Bottom, Capitol Hill, and K Street. An insider with an outsider's commonsense and Christian faith, Jatras wields his rapier wit with a buccaneer's sense of humor, engaging all the issues of our "interesting times":
. The woke ideology behind U.S. foreign policy
. The media's role in paving the way for "wars of choice"
. The West's irrational and self-defeating Russophobia
. The threat of worldwide Islamic jihad
. What it means to be an American
. What it means to put America First!
. The clownish incompetence of the Stupid Party
. The demonic danger of the increasingly hysterical Evil Party
Still a member of the U.S. Supreme Court bar, Jatras is a co-author of an amicus curiae brief advocating reversal of Roe v. Wade on the basis of the teachings of the Orthodox Church. He is also the inventor of an ingenious trade-marked font called EurAlfabetTM read-able by anyone already familiar with the Roman, Cyrillic, or Greek alphabet. Both the amicus brief and a demonstration of Eur-AlfabetTM are included in this volume-with much, much more.
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Dateigröße
ISBN-13
978-0-9910169-4-5 (9780991016945)
Schweitzer Klassifikation
James George Jatras is an analyst and commentator with extensive experience in international relations, government affairs, and legislative politics. He holds a JD from Georgetown and a BA from Penn State. From 1979 to 1985, he was a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State serving in Mexico and on the Soviet desk in Washington, D.C. From 1985 to 2002, he served as a policy advisor and analyst for the Republican leadership in the U.S. Senate. In 1988, he co-authored an amicus curiae brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in the case Webster v. Reproductive Health Services on behalf of the Orthodox Church, advocating the reversal of Roe v. Wade.
Since entering the private sector, his work has spanned a range of legislative and political issues and international affairs, including matters related to foreign policy, international security, human rights, public diplomacy, immigration, international trade and finance, and the global terror risk environment, as well as domestic issues. He is a frequent speaker, panelist, and seminar participant on numerous topics, has made numerous media appearances, and is a frequent contributor to print and online publications, both in the U.S. and abroad.
Jatras is the son of Greek-American parents from Harrisburg, PA. His father was a career U.S. Air Force fighter pilot with combat service in Vietnam and assignments to Athens and Moscow. His mother was twice honored by the Serbian Church and government for her tireless advocacy on behalf of Serbs and Serbia. His beloved wife of 45 years fell asleep in the Lord in 2019. He has two grown daughters and six grandchildren. He can be reached on X @JimJatras.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title Page
Publication Information
Praise for I TRIED TO WARN YOU
Dedication
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
NOTE ON TEXT
1. Solzhenitsyn and the Liberals
2. Pravoslavophobia
3. Russophobia
4. Ukraine's Unheeded Warning
5. Worldwide Jihad
6. What Is an American?
7. Evil Party, Stupid Party
8. America First!
9. Woking the World
10. Fatuous FATCA
11. EurAlfabet
12. Open Letter to Michael Dukakis
13. Reply to a Roman Catholic
14. How American Media Serves as a Transmission Belt for Wars of
Choice
15. An Orthodox View of Abortion: The Amicus Curiae
16. The Parable of the Bakers, the Dough, and the Special Bread
17. It's Later Than You Think
18. It's Even Later Than You Thought
19. The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Extinction Itself
20. Only Systemic Change Can Save the U.S.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
TITLE INDEX TO THE PRINT VERSION
GENERAL INDEX TO THE PRINT VERSION