I 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
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Insurgents in Iraq Seizing Advanced Weaponry
July 7 | Posted by mrossol | Iraq, Middle East, Radical IslamAbandoning 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
ISIS Is About to Destroy Biblical History in Iraq
July 7 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, Radical IslamDon’t think this cannot come home to roost in America. ===== Iraqi antiquities officials are calling on the Obama administration to save Nineveh and other sites around jihadist-occupied Mosul. But are drone strikes really the answer? PARIS — More than two and a half millennia ago, the Assyrian King Senaccherib descended on his enemies “like the wolf on the fold,” as the Bible... Read more
Obama’s Foreign Policy Is Forming Alliances We Never Thought Possible – Yahoo Finance
July 7 | Posted by mrossol | Iran, Liberal Press, Middle East, Obama, SyriaAlmost exclusively reactive, never proactive or leading. And this is what it has gotten the USA. I’m surprised that this article was published by the AP. The press has been oh so slow to ‘analyze’ impacts of Obama’s actions (hard to call it a ‘policy’) overseas. ===== AP Here’s how quickly things can change in the volatile Middle East: Less than one year... Read more
Where are the Palestinian Mothers?
July 2 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, Radical Islam, The LeftVery tough for me to understand the mindset, thought process, etc. I have tried. ============= In March 2004 a Palestinian teenager named Hussam Abdo was spotted by Israeli soldiers behaving suspiciously as he approached the Hawara checkpoint in the West Bank. Ordered at gunpoint to raise his sweater, the startled boy exposed a suicide vest loaded with nearly 20 pounds of explosives... Read more
