Only one post for tonight. This one should be enough… ========= WSJ 1/4/2018 Iran erupted last Thursday. By Friday, the protests against the government, which began in Mashhad near the Afghan border, had spread to dozens of cities. So when we traveled on Saturday to a movie theater on Manhattan’s Lower East Side to see “Darkest Hour,” Gary Oldman’s portrayal of Winston Churchill,... Read more
Archive for the ‘Middle East’ Category
Make Iran Great Again!
January 4 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Iran, Middle East, Obama, TrumpA Trump Alliance Strategy
April 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Henninger, Middle East, TrumpLet’s keep our allies. ===== WSJ 4/20/2017 Henninger After 59 Tomahawk missiles landed on a Syrian airfield, followed by the dropping of a 21,600-pound bomb on Islamic State’s hideouts in Afghanistan, the world has begun to ask: What is Donald Trump’s foreign policy? And so the search begins by pressing what Mr. Trump has done so far against various foreign-policy templates. Is he... Read more
Syrian Chemical Repeat
April 5 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, Obama, Syria, The LeftOps, can’t bring that up… ====== WSJ 4/5/2017 Just when Western leaders think they can forget about the Syrian civil war, Bashar Assad drags them back in. A suspected poison gas attack widely blamed on the Syrian regime killed at least 58 people in opposition-held territory Tuesday, including 11 children. Syria’s army denied using chemical weapons, but then that’s what the regime said in... Read more
Egyptian Christians Fearing Terror Flee
February 26 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, Radical Islam, Religious PersecutionNotice who is protesting?? ===== Feb. 26, 2017 AP ISMAILIA, Egypt—Egyptian Christians fearing attacks by Islamic State militants fled the volatile northern part of the Sinai Peninsula for a fourth day on Sunday, after a string of sectarian killings there sent hundreds packing and raised accusations the government is failing to protect the minority. More than 100 families from the town of el-Arish and... Read more
Where’s the Pope on Syria?
December 27 | Posted by mrossol | Iraq, Israel, Middle East, Politically correct, Religion, The LeftI really wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt, but this probably ends that hope forever. ========= WSJ 12/27/2016 If you are like this columnist, you may have missed the recent prayer vigil in front of St. Peter’s, which featured Pope Francis leading tens of thousands of the faithful in protest of the sickening Russian military strikes in Aleppo that have... Read more
Obama’s Anti-Israel Tantrum
December 27 | Posted by mrossol | Israel, Middle East, ObamaTotally despicable. ======== WSJ 12/24/2016 The decision by the United States to abstain from a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Israel over its settlements on the West Bank is one of the most significant, defining moments of the Obama Presidency. It defines this President’s extraordinary ability to transform matters of public policy into personal pique at adversaries. And it defines the reality of... Read more
