... intervention as Russia taking a responsible and leading role in combating ISIS and preserving state sovereignty/the world order; this in ... ... like all of Catholic Europe will be sending holy warriors in a crusade to fight Orthodox Russia’s attempts to annex the ethnic ... ... president in office now who campaigned on the fact that invading Iraq in 2003 was a colossal mistake, who, keeping this in mind,... ... controlled mainly by Alawate Shiites. It is backed by Shiite Persian Iranians and the Arab Shiite Lebanese militia Hezbollah. Sunni ...
... largest and deadliest. Here, as in other situations, we have a crisis in which we must be careful not to blame Obama too much but ... ... and, unlike Qaddafi’s, had strong patrons in Russia and Iran who would complicate and increase the costs of any Western ... ... no-fly-zones, and the U.S. specifically partnering with its allies Iraq and (NATO member) Turkey to use drones, reconnaissance flights,... ... publicly by several major Western governments (including that of the United States), Human Rights Watch, and later by the United Nations....
... Republican Nonsense: Part I: Introduction, Muslim World Reset, Iraq, Israel/Palestine
If you can’t understand that Obama’s ... ... America was not in the midst of the worst economic and financial crisis since the Great Depression. Still even more amusing and amazing ... ... Egypt to Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel, from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran to (the recently departed) King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and ... ... units to be built on illegally occupied, disputed land in East Jerusalem (which was occupied in 1967 along with the West Bank and ...
How the Obama Administration Removed Iraq’s Largest Political Obstacle
Originally published Nov.... ... first the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria/the Levant/al-Sham (ISIS or ISIL) and now just Islamic State (IS) might possibly have ... ... not least among the reasons, ISIS was murdering and abusing thousands in ways that even al-Qaeda thought went too far. Christians,... ... would also strengthen an Iraqi government that was in line with Iran in many ways and had resisted accommodating the U.S. government ...