Not the first time I have thought: “Why do I agree more with British leaders than American?” ========== British Prime Minister David Cameron writing in the Telegraph (London), Aug. 16: The creation of an extremist caliphate in the heart of Iraq and extending into Syria is not a problem miles away from home. Nor is it a problem that should be defined by... Read more
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Mr. Speaker, please… We are being slaughered…
August 8 | Posted by mrossol | Iraq, Radical Islam, Religious Persecution, The LeftWhere is the “moral outrage”???? ========== From a translation by the MEMRI organization of a plea on Aug. 5 by Vian Dakhil to her fellow members of the Iraqi Parliament, on behalf of the Yazidi, a religious sect whose members are besieged on Mount Sinjar by the extremist Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham: I beg you, Mr. Speaker, my people are... Read more
Silicon Valley Takes on North Korea
August 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, N KoreaInteresting. I’d bet this group will make more progress than any government effort. ========== Silicon Valley’s ambitions range far and wide, from taking on hotels and taxi operators to connecting toothbrushes to the Internet. Now, it’s starting to turn its focus to North Korea. Over the weekend, about 100 hackers, coders and engineers gathered in San Francisco to brainstorm ways to pierce the... Read more
Abandoning the Kurds
August 5 | Posted by mrossol | Iraq, Middle EastAny friend of George Bush is an enemy of mine. – Obama =========== Another day, another Middle Eastern defeat. On Sunday the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS, ousted Kurdish forces from three towns in northern Iraq and laid siege to the country’s largest dam. The question now is whether the Obama Administration will abandon our long-time Kurdish allies... Read more
Palestine and Double Standards
August 5 | Posted by mrossol | Israel, The LeftVery well said. =========== What follows are excerpts from a June 30, 2014, news account by Tim Craig, the Washington Post’s bureau chief in Pakistan: “Pakistan’s military launched a major ground offensive in the northwestern part of the country Monday, beginning what army commanders say will be a ‘house-to-house search’ for terrorist leaders and other militants. “The offensive began after two weeks of airstrikes... Read more
Some Musings on Zionism
August 3 | Posted by mrossol | Israel, Middle EastInteresting article. ======= They come from every corner of the country—investment bankers, farmers, computer geeks, jazz drummers, botany professors, car mechanics—leaving their jobs and their families. They put on uniforms that are invariably too tight or too baggy, sign out their gear and guns. Then, scrambling onto military vehicles, 70,000 reservists—women and men—join the young conscripts of what is proportionally the world’s... Read more
