‘When Your Enemies Are Fighting Each Other, Weaken Both’ – I’m much warmer to Netanyaho’s perspective on the Middle East than those who don’t have to live next door. =========== Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his opposition to widescale American intervention in the Iraq crisis, advising President Obama that “when your enemies are fighting one another, don’t strengthen either one... Read more
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Obama’s Iraq Feint
June 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Iraq, Middle East, Obama, Radical IslamHe fooled Americans with a promise of change and transparency. Is his real goal offering the US to Islam in exchange for “Supreme Islam Ruler of the World”? ======================= So President Obama now says he will send “up to 300” military advisers to Iraq to help reverse the advance of al Qaeda, but not to do any fighting. He may agree... Read more
The High Price of Obama Fatigue
June 21 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Obama, The Left======= Updated June 19, 2014 3:28 p.m. ET With 2½ years left in the Obama presidency, it is at least an open question what will be left of it by December 2016. Or us. In this week’s Wall Street Journal-NBC poll, conducted as the disintegration of Iraq began, Mr. Obama’s approval rating has fallen to 41% and his handling of foreign policy to... Read more
The Collapsing Obama Doctrine
June 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, ObamaRarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many. ======= Updated June 17, 2014 7:34 p.m. ET As the terrorists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) threaten Baghdad, thousands of slaughtered Iraqis in their wake, it is worth recalling a few of President Obama’s past statements about ISIS and al Qaeda. “If... Read more
The Pace of Obama’s Disasters
June 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, ObamaBergdahl one week. Then Ukraine. Now Iraq. What could be next? What do you see when you step back for a wider perspective? ========= Bret Stephens- Updated June 16, 2014 7:41 p.m. ET Was it only 10 months ago that President Obama capitulated on Syria? And eight months ago that we learned he had no idea the U.S. eavesdropped on Angela Merkel ? And seven... Read more
The Standing to Sue Obama
June 21 | Posted by mrossol | Obama, US ConstitutionFinally, some are looking for real solutions to the “lawlessness”. ========== June 15, 2014 5:48 p.m. ET President Obama is setting a dangerous precedent by suspending his enforcement of laws on health care, immigration, drugs, banking and so much else, but the courts may soon be asked to throw a brushback pitch. That is, unless a rump group of backbenchers undermines the legal... Read more
