Put a sticky-note on this one. ============== WSJ – By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. May 26, 2017 8:06 p.m. ET The Trump -Russia business is finally coming into clearer, more rational focus. Former Obama CIA chief John Brennan, in testimony this week, offered no evidence of Trump campaign cooperation with Russian intelligence. Instead he spoke of CIA fears that Russia would try to recruit/blackmail/trick... Read more
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Trump-Russia Story Starts Making Sense – WSJ
June 2 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, Party Politics, Russia, TrumpA Trump Alliance Strategy
April 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Henninger, Middle East, TrumpLet’s keep our allies. ===== WSJ 4/20/2017 Henninger After 59 Tomahawk missiles landed on a Syrian airfield, followed by the dropping of a 21,600-pound bomb on Islamic State’s hideouts in Afghanistan, the world has begun to ask: What is Donald Trump’s foreign policy? And so the search begins by pressing what Mr. Trump has done so far against various foreign-policy templates. Is he... Read more
From the North Korean state news agency KCNA
April 5 | Posted by mrossol | Interesting, N KoreaIn case you missed this tid-bit… ========= WSJ 4/4/2017 Days ago, the U.S. newspaper Wall Street Journal of the right conservative forces hurled mud at the DPRK again. The March 27th issue of the paper let out such flurry of nonsense that the U.S. should set a regime change in the DPRK as a clear-cut policy target. . . . For the DPRK this... Read more
Syrian Chemical Repeat
April 5 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, Obama, Syria, The LeftOps, can’t bring that up… ====== WSJ 4/5/2017 Just when Western leaders think they can forget about the Syrian civil war, Bashar Assad drags them back in. A suspected poison gas attack widely blamed on the Syrian regime killed at least 58 people in opposition-held territory Tuesday, including 11 children. Syria’s army denied using chemical weapons, but then that’s what the regime said in... Read more
A ‘Pentagon Papers’ on Russia?
March 30 | Posted by mrossol | Liberal Press, Russia, The LeftAlong with the Imprimis article on Putin, this piece is also insightful. ==== WSJ – 4/25/2017 By Holman W Jenkins The American media needs to get a grip. News in essence is about how today differs from yesterday, a corollary of which is that yesterday was different from today. Reporters commit the fallacy of anachronism out the wazoo with their treatment of a report... Read more
