Any 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
Archive for the ‘Iraq’ Category
Insurgents in Iraq Seizing Advanced Weaponry
July 7 | Posted by mrossol | Iraq, Middle East, Radical IslamI don’t show the image, but doesn’t anyone (press?) find it interesting that the ‘Islamist militants’ always have their faces masked? Is it because they are so humble that they don’t want to take credit for the good they are doing? ======= BAGHDAD—As Iraqi soldiers dug in three weeks ago to defend the northwestern city of Tel Afar, they were shocked to... Read more
Netanyahu Advises Obama
June 23 | Posted by mrossol | Iraq, Middle East, Obama‘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
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
America Shouldn’t Choose Sides in Iraq’s Civil War
June 21 | Posted by mrossol | Iraq, Middle EastAn opinion worth considering. But not choosing who should “win” is different than choosing who we don’t want to win. ========== By Rand Paul – June 19, 2014 7:12 p.m. ET Though many claim the mantle of Ronald Reagan on foreign policy, too few look at how he really conducted it. The Iraq war is one of the best examples of where we... Read more
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
