Don’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
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ISIS Is About to Destroy Biblical History in Iraq
July 7 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, Radical IslamObama’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
Fouad Ajami on America and the Arabs
June 24 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Middle East, Radical IslamSome exerpts from a very good thinker and writer. =============== Editor’s note: Fouad Ajami, the Middle Eastern scholar and a contributor to these pages for 27 years, died Sunday at age 68. Excerpts from his writing in the Journal are below, and a related editorial appears nearby: “A Tangled History,” a review of Bernard Lewis’s book, “Islam and the West,” June 24, 1993: The... Read more
Fouad Ajami, Great American
June 24 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Middle EastI am sorry to see him gone. He wrote with insight and clarity. RIP ========== Fouad Ajami would have been amused, but not surprised, to read his own obituary in the New York Times. “Edward Said, the Palestinian cultural critic who died in 2003, accused [Ajami] of having ‘unmistakably racist prescriptions,'” quoted obituarist Douglas Martin. Thus was Said, the most mendacious, self-infatuated and... Read more
Netanyahu Advises Obama
June 23 | Posted by mrossol | Iraq, Middle East, Obama‘When Your Enemies Are Fighting Each Other, Weaken Both’ – I’m much warmer to Netanyaho’s perspective on the Middle East than those who don’t have to live next door. =========== Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his opposition to widescale American intervention in the Iraq crisis, advising President Obama that “when your enemies are fighting one another, don’t strengthen either one... Read more
