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AMMAN — Anyone who’s been paying attention to the Syrian vortex of death, and Russia’s role in this vortex,... ... president in office now who campaigned on the fact that invading Iraq in 2003 was a colossal mistake, who, keeping this in mind,... ... nearly marched on Baghdad after taking much of the country from Maliki’s sectarian Shiite regime. Now, for the past few years,... ... controlled mainly by Alawate Shiites. It is backed by Shiite Persian Iranians and the Arab Shiite Lebanese militia Hezbollah. Sunni ...
... Republican Nonsense: Part I: Introduction, Muslim World Reset, Iraq, Israel/Palestine
If you can’t understand that Obama’s ... ...
Grading Obama’s Middle East Strategy (Sensibly): Part II: Syria
The cocks who crow “failure” every time the ... ... Egypt to Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel, from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran to (the recently departed) King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and ... ... leadership—led by Iraq’s Prime Minister, Nouri Kemal al-Maliki—with the Sunni or Kurdish minorities, agreements that ...
How the Obama Administration Removed Iraq’s Largest Political Obstacle
Originally published Nov.... ... presidency, he and his Administration realized that Nuri Kamal al-Maliki was part of the problem, not part of the solution. It did ... ... extremists, especially in Iraq’s western Anbar province on Syria’s border, saw the defeat of al-Qaeda in Iraq/Mesopotamia ... ... would also strengthen an Iraqi government that was in line with Iran in many ways and had resisted accommodating the U.S. government ...