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
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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
In What Way Is Iran a Reliable Negotiating Partner?
March 7 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Iran, ObamaAnyone thinking straight as know this for years (30?) =============== By Chris Stewart March 2, 2015 7:02 p.m. ET I was one of the Air Force’s B-1 pilot representatives for the verification of the START treaties with the former Soviet Union during my 14 years in the military. In those years I learned much about implementing a credible national-security policy. Two lessons in particular... Read more
Obama’s Foreign Policy Is Forming Alliances We Never Thought Possible – Yahoo Finance
July 7 | Posted by mrossol | Iran, Liberal Press, Middle East, Obama, SyriaAlmost exclusively reactive, never proactive or leading. And this is what it has gotten the USA. I’m surprised that this article was published by the AP. The press has been oh so slow to ‘analyze’ impacts of Obama’s actions (hard to call it a ‘policy’) overseas. ===== AP Here’s how quickly things can change in the volatile Middle East: Less than one year... Read more
Our Friends the Mullahs
June 21 | Posted by mrossol | Iran, Middle EastUpdated 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
