A Sensible Grading of Obama’s Middle East Strategy: The Syrian Civil War
Grading Obama on what has—and has not—been done by his ... ... military was much stronger and, unlike Qaddafi’s, had strong patrons in Russia and Iran who would complicate and increase the costs of any Western intervention and made... ... naval blockades, no-fly-zones, and the U.S. specifically partnering with its allies Iraq and (NATO member) Turkey to use drones, reconnaissance flights, and other high-tech...
... 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 ... ... 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.... ... extremists, especially in Iraq’s western Anbar province on Syria’s border, saw the defeat of al-Qaeda in Iraq/Mesopotamia ... ... 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 ...
