Sad day for sure. ==== By Bret Stephens April 20, 2015 7:37 p.m. ET 1125 COMMENTS Recent conversations with senior Israeli officials are shot through with a sense of incredulity. They can’t understand what’s become of U.S. foreign policy. They don’t know how to square Barack Obama’s promises with his policies. They fail to grasp how a president who pledged to work toward the abolition... Read more
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Obama’s Mideast Vacuum
March 28 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, Obama, Radical Islam, The Left, Western CivilizationAnother “total disaster” if you want my opinion. =========== March 26, 2015 7:21 p.m. An abiding goal of President Obama’s foreign policy has been to reduce America’s role in the Middle East, in the belief that it would lead to greater stability and serve U.S. interests. Has a policy ever been so thoroughly repudiated in so short a time? Mr. Obama has succeeded... Read more
Obama’s Iran Policy Is Lost at Sea – WSJ
March 28 | Posted by mrossol | Iran, Obama, TerrorismAh, but you don’t realize that Mr. Obama will ensure compliance… ============ By Claudia Rosett March 26, 2015 7:03 p.m. ET American negotiators and their cohorts are trying to close a deal that would let Iran keep its nuclear program, subject to intricate conditions of monitoring and enforcement. Yet how is a deal like that supposed to be verified? The Obama administration can’t even... Read more
An Unusual Religious Alliance to Aid Refugees
March 28 | Posted by mrossol | Interesting, ISIS, Israel, Middle EastHow refreshing. Oh, it can be done! ============= By Georgette Bennett March 26, 2015 7:08 p.m. ET Last month I visited the Syrian refugee camp in Jordan known as Za’atari. With 80,000 occupants, the camp would be the fourth-largest city in Jordan. It occupies a vast desert plain, filled with endless rows of tents that are gradually being replaced with rows of metal-sided... Read more
Obama’s Iran Jam
March 17 | Posted by mrossol | Iran, Obama, Republican(s)Republican Party – please, please, show just a little bit of intelligence and backbone. =============== March 15, 2015 6:44 p.m. ET One unfortunate side effect of last week’s letter from 47 GOP Senators to Iran is that it has helped the White House and its media friends obscure the far more important story—the degree to which President Obama is trying to prevent... Read more
GOP Letter Draws Obama Rebuke
March 10 | Posted by mrossol | Iran, Obama, Republican(s)Not surprised at all. Anytime the man disagrees with someone, but does not have a good argument, he disparages them; demonizes their character. =============== By Michael R. Crittenden and Byron Tau Updated March 9, 2015 11:28 p.m. ET WASHINGTON—The already heated battle between Congress and the White House over U.S.-led nuclear talks with Iran got nastier Monday as President Barack Obama chastised... Read more
