Lots of talk about Obama’s willingness to “make the touch decision…[to take out OBL]”, yet other situations do not support that positive depiction. ========== By JOHN BOLTON Despite months of negotiations by former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and extensive Security Council deliberations, hostilities in Syria continue. Although overall violence is down slightly and the council has increased U.N. observers to 300, the... Read more
Archive for the ‘Middle East’ Category
An ‘Arab Winter’ Chills Christians
December 5 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, Politically correct, Radical Islam, Religious PersecutionWho is speaking for these people? Or do they deserve their lot? ================== By SAM DAGHER WSJ_December 5, 2011 BARTELLA, Iraq—The plight of Iraqi Christians since the fall of Saddam Hussein has been agonizingly personal for Aram Butrus Matti. Hanging on the wall in his parents’ home here in northern Iraq are photographs of his cousin Yonan, his cousin’s spouse and their three-month-old son, who... Read more
Assad Gaining Upper Hand
October 30 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, Obama, The LeftOf course, you understand that this tiny blog of my cannot illustrate, or copy, or forward all the communication and “dialog” that Obama is having with Syria in the US Adminstrations’ effort to protect innocent Syrians. ============= By NOUR MALAS Syrian opposition leaders said President Bashar al-Assad’s forces appear to have gained the upper hand in the eight-month revolt, after a weekend of... Read more
Palestinian Statehood and the Lessons of Oslo
September 28 | Posted by mrossol | Middle EastIsn’t this obvious? ====== By FOUAD AJAMI ‘U.N. 194″ is the slogan of the campaign to grant the Palestinians a seat at the United Nations, to recognize their authority as the 194th nation in that world body. This is the Palestinians’ second chance, for there was the session of the General Assembly in 1947 that addressed the question of Palestine, and the struggle... Read more
Palestinian Statehood and the Lessons of Oslo
September 23 | Posted by mrossol | Middle EastOnce again, one of the better analysis of the situation… ============== “The deliberations at the U.N. are only theater, just another illusion.” By FOUAD AJAMI ‘U.N. 194″ is the slogan of the campaign to grant the Palestinians a seat at the United Nations, to recognize their authority as the 194th nation in that world body. This is the Palestinians’ second chance, for there was... Read more
Leading from Behind?
September 1 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Middle East, Obama, The LeftMr. Ajami almost always speaks with insight and sense… He here helps explain why Libya and Iraq are so different. ================= By FOUAD AJAMI On the face of it, the similarities of the undoing of the terrible regimes of Saddam Hussein and Moammar Gadhafi are striking. The spectacles of joy in Tripoli today recall the delirious scenes in Baghdad’s Firdos Square in 2003—the... Read more
