Don’t be surprised. Not sure they realize that governing takes real work. ========= Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R., Calif.) had a simple question Wednesday for three of the Obama administration’s top Afghanistan specialists: How many American troops have been killed in Afghanistan this year? None of the witnesses at the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Afghanistan had an answer. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R., Calif.)... Read more
Archive for the ‘Middle East’ Category
Simple Questions Stump Obama Officials
December 16 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, Obama, The LeftOur Former Friends the Saudis
October 23 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Middle East, ObamaSo who did you say our friends were “leaving” the US over? What that George Bush? ============= President Obama likes to boast that he has repaired U.S. alliances supposedly frayed and battered by the Bush Administration. He should try using that line with our former allies in Saudi Arabia. As the Journal’s Ellen Knickmeyer has reported from Riyadh in recent weeks, the Kingdom... Read more
U.N. Insecurity Council
October 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Middle East, ObamaCan anyone imagine the press “feeding frenzy” if Pres. Bush had been “snubbed” like this by Saudi Arabia? Maybe Obama isn’t having enough “dialog”? Maybe he should send Michelle to Saudi Arabia to generate a little more good will? ============ Membership in the United Nations Security Council is supposed to be like a Nobel Prize—no one ever turns it down. So when... Read more
Putin Snookers Obama
September 11 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, Obama, SyriaSnookered… How’s that “Change has come…” working for you? ========= Putin’s deft timing on a Syria chemical arms surrender plan snookered Obama Simon Tisdall The Guardian, Wednesday 11 September 2013 10.22 EDT It is no consolation at all to Syria’s suffering people, stuck with Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime. But for Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president and long-standing anti-western bogeyman, the decision to put military action on... Read more
The Politics of the Obama Delay on Syria
September 4 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, Obama, SyriaPut me down as a “No!” vote on supporting military action against Assad. It’s not where this article ends up, but I do not believe we can continue to allow Obama to blame everything on someone else. ============= By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL The most telling line in President Obama’s Saturday Syria address came near the end, when he (once again) lectured Congress about its... Read more
The Al Qaeda Obama Ignored
August 8 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Middle East, Obama, Radical Islam, The LeftThe second shortest distance in Washington now runs between an Obama speech and its empirical disproof …the executive branch of government has been operating on a contrary set of assumptions… …the gist of the address was clear, as was its purpose: to declare the war on terror won—or won well-enough—and go home. Facts and analysis were arranged to suit the policy goal.... Read more
