National Security: Go west

Joe Boyles Guest Columnist As we begin the second 250 years since our nation’s founding, it is easy to overlook that in 1776, the future of the American nation was the western part of the continent. At a time when the old nations of Europe were looking to expand empires into Africa, the Middle East, South America, and South Asia, America was looking toward the Pacific. In 1750, James Madison’s father built a manor house in Orange County, Va., he called Montpelier. He faced the new home wes