He fooled Americans with a promise of change and transparency. Is his real goal offering the US to Islam in exchange for “Supreme Islam Ruler of the World”? ======================= So President Obama now says he will send “up to 300” military advisers to Iraq to help reverse the advance of al Qaeda, but not to do any fighting. He may agree... Read more
Archive for the ‘Middle East’ Category
Obama’s Iraq Feint
June 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Iraq, Middle East, Obama, Radical IslamAmerica Shouldn’t Choose Sides in Iraq’s Civil War
June 21 | Posted by mrossol | Iraq, Middle EastAn opinion worth considering. But not choosing who should “win” is different than choosing who we don’t want to win. ========== By Rand Paul – June 19, 2014 7:12 p.m. ET Though many claim the mantle of Ronald Reagan on foreign policy, too few look at how he really conducted it. The Iraq war is one of the best examples of where we... Read more
Our Friends the Mullahs
June 21 | Posted by mrossol | Iran, Middle EastUpdated June 18, 2014 7:03 p.m. ET Such is America’s strategic disarray in Iraq that the Obama Administration has come up with a new version of an old idea—court Iran as an ally. So in order to defeat Sunni extremists who want to form a potentially terrorist state, we are going to get in bed with a terrorist-sponsoring Shiite regime that... Read more
The Middle East Turned Upside Down
June 21 | Posted by mrossol | Iraq, Middle EastJune 17, 2014 7:23 p.m. ET Jerusalem The rapid advance of the hard-line Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) into Iraq’s Sunni heartland has sparked a cottage industry of commentary on the plan devised in 1916 by British diplomat Mark Sykes and his French counterpart, François Georges-Picot, that laid the basis for the map of the modern Middle East and... Read more
The Men Who Sealed Iraq’s Disaster With a Handshake
June 21 | Posted by mrossol | Iraq, Middle East, ObamaObama’s rush for the exit and Maliki’s autocratic rule ensured that much hard-won progress would not last. Bad enough. But if we don’t learn from this… ========== Fouad Ajami – June 13, 2014 6:25 p.m. ET Two men bear direct responsibility for the mayhem engulfing Iraq: Barack Obama and Nouri al-Maliki. The U.S. president and Iraqi prime minister stood shoulder to shoulder in... Read more
The Iraq Debacle
June 21 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, Obama, Radical Islam, The LeftYour great leader and statesman… ========== An extended civil war is likely. A terrorist caliphate is possible. The magnitude of the debacle now unfolding in Iraq is becoming clearer by the day, with the terrorist army of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS, marching ever closer to Baghdad. On Tuesday the al Qaeda affiliate captured Mosul, a city with a... Read more
