Snookered… 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
Archive for the ‘Middle East’ Category
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
Exploiting Obama’s Foreign Policy Retreat
August 8 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, Obama, The Left“He did because he could”. Oh, you on the left. I’m talking about Putin, not the savior Obama. ==== By JOSEF JOFFE ‘We are extremely disappointed,” the White House press secretary said after Moscow granted asylum to fugitive NSA leaker Edward Snowden. A nice understatement. Washington is now looking at the greatest counterintelligence failure since the Rosenbergs betrayed nuclear know-how to Stalin some... Read more
A Clear, Unambiguous Position.
March 19 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Middle EastCan you top this? ================= From President George W. Bush’s address to members of Israel’s Knesset, May 15, 2008: As we go forward, our alliance will be guided by clear principles, shared convictions rooted in moral clarity and unswayed by popularity polls or the shifting opinions of international elites. We believe in the matchless value of every man, woman, and child. So we insist... Read more
Risking the Finlandization of the Persian Gulf
March 19 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Middle EastI do hope we have some thinking people still in the US Federal Govt that think about these things. ============ By SIMON HENDERSON AND GABRIEL SCHEINMANN Where is the Iranian nuclear showdown going? No doubt that will be a subject of discussion when President Obama visits Israel this week and meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But in Washington, Jerusalem and other capitals, officials... Read more
