Not the first time I have thought: “Why do I agree more with British leaders than American?” ========== British Prime Minister David Cameron writing in the Telegraph (London), Aug. 16: The creation of an extremist caliphate in the heart of Iraq and extending into Syria is not a problem miles away from home. Nor is it a problem that should be defined by... Read more
Archive for the ‘Middle East’ Category
Abandoning the Kurds
August 5 | Posted by mrossol | Iraq, Middle EastAny friend of George Bush is an enemy of mine. – Obama =========== Another day, another Middle Eastern defeat. On Sunday the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS, ousted Kurdish forces from three towns in northern Iraq and laid siege to the country’s largest dam. The question now is whether the Obama Administration will abandon our long-time Kurdish allies... Read more
Some Musings on Zionism
August 3 | Posted by mrossol | Israel, Middle EastInteresting article. ======= They come from every corner of the country—investment bankers, farmers, computer geeks, jazz drummers, botany professors, car mechanics—leaving their jobs and their families. They put on uniforms that are invariably too tight or too baggy, sign out their gear and guns. Then, scrambling onto military vehicles, 70,000 reservists—women and men—join the young conscripts of what is proportionally the world’s... Read more
Insurgents in Iraq Seizing Advanced Weaponry
July 7 | Posted by mrossol | Iraq, Middle East, Radical IslamI don’t show the image, but doesn’t anyone (press?) find it interesting that the ‘Islamist militants’ always have their faces masked? Is it because they are so humble that they don’t want to take credit for the good they are doing? ======= BAGHDAD—As Iraqi soldiers dug in three weeks ago to defend the northwestern city of Tel Afar, they were shocked to... Read more
Abandoning Afghanistan…
July 7 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, Obama, Radical IslamJonathan Foreman writing on Afghanistan in the July/August issue of Commentary magazine: [T]he truly awful aspect of this retreat is that America may be about to abandon Afghanistan just when it seems to have turned a corner—when a new leader is about to take power after a peaceful democratic process, when economic growth is transforming life for millions, and when... Read more
The Abyss Between Two Heinous Episodes
July 7 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, Radical IslamAs America approached its national holiday this year, Israel and world Jewry were plunged into mourning for three students who were abducted and murdered by members of the Palestinian terror group Hamas. Thirty-eight years ago, on July 4, 1976, jubilation greeted the news that an Israeli commando raid had freed 102 fellow citizens held hostage by Palestinian terrorists at an... Read more
