Updated June 18, 2014 7:03 p.m. ET Such is America’s strategic disarray in Iraq that the Obama Administration has come up with a new version of an old idea—court Iran as an ally. So in order to defeat Sunni extremists who want to form a potentially terrorist state, we are going to get in bed with a terrorist-sponsoring Shiite regime that... Read more
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The Middle East Turned Upside Down
June 21 | Posted by mrossol | Iraq, Middle EastJune 17, 2014 7:23 p.m. ET Jerusalem The rapid advance of the hard-line Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) into Iraq’s Sunni heartland has sparked a cottage industry of commentary on the plan devised in 1916 by British diplomat Mark Sykes and his French counterpart, François Georges-Picot, that laid the basis for the map of the modern Middle East and... Read more
Only America Can Prevent a Disaster in Iraq
June 21 | Posted by mrossol | Iraq, Losing Freedom========= L. Paul Bremer- June 15, 2014 6:04 p.m. ET The crisis unfolding in Iraq is heartbreaking especially for those families who lost loved ones there. They gave so much; it is all at risk. It did not need to be this way. As I wrote in these pages in December 2011 after the last of our military left Iraq, “President Obama made... Read more
The Men Who Sealed Iraq’s Disaster With a Handshake
June 21 | Posted by mrossol | Iraq, Middle East, ObamaObama’s rush for the exit and Maliki’s autocratic rule ensured that much hard-won progress would not last. Bad enough. But if we don’t learn from this… ========== Fouad Ajami – June 13, 2014 6:25 p.m. ET Two men bear direct responsibility for the mayhem engulfing Iraq: Barack Obama and Nouri al-Maliki. The U.S. president and Iraqi prime minister stood shoulder to shoulder in... Read more
The Iraq Debacle
June 21 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, Obama, Radical Islam, The LeftYour great leader and statesman… ========== An extended civil war is likely. A terrorist caliphate is possible. The magnitude of the debacle now unfolding in Iraq is becoming clearer by the day, with the terrorist army of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS, marching ever closer to Baghdad. On Tuesday the al Qaeda affiliate captured Mosul, a city with a... Read more
Matthew Kaminski: The West Leaves Ukraine to Putin – WSJ.com
April 18 | Posted by mrossol | Obama, Russia, UkraineWith friends like the USA, who needs enemies? ======= By MATTHEW KAMINSKI CONNECT Updated April 14, 2014 5:39 a.m. ET Kiev, Ukraine ‘We’re the chosen generation,” says Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Ukraine’s interim prime minister. He’s referring to all those who made this winter’s European revolution. For the first time since 1654, when Ukrainian Cossacks formed a fateful alliance with Moscow against Polish rulers, Ukrainians are heading... Read more
