Search: Middle East,Media,Radical Islam,Foreign Affairs,Intelligence,Security (4 materials)

American Jihadi: Why Westerners Fight with the Islamic State

Media outlets and government circles both cringe and squirm when the subject of Westerners leaving the West to go fight in Syria ... ... those horrified by the images of beheadings and immolation, understanding this process (and more importantly the failure of the intelligence community and state department to make inroads against it) requires one to accept something most Americans cannot: ...

18.04.2015

Twisting in Our Own Tortured Noose: American Verbal Duplicity and Torture

... ‘abhorrent’ techniques used on terrorist targets after 9/11 to glean greater intelligence and information. Since that release there has been an orgy of oscillating... ... dementedly odd Americans can be about their own people, country, government, and its foreign affairs. Let's just break this down in simple terms: we are talking... ... torture techniques after 9/11 is the bogus semantics game being played out with the media now in the report’s aftermath. “Yes we did torture. No. Sorry. We...

15.12.2014

Yemen's Special Interests, or, Horton Hears a Houthi

... guy hats’ and ‘bad guy hats’ into foreign affairs: BOTH sides were right in their descriptions.... ... against. The only sustained message given in the media, coming from the government, is that America ... ... these strikes are actually being done by the American Intelligence Community, namely the CIA, in an arena ... ... support for whatever groups it can find across the Middle East, especially if those groups might share ... ... and a potential danger to their sovereign national security interests in the Gulf and beyond. So while ...

23.07.2014

The Strange Bedfellows of a New Deadlier Iraq

... would think Iraq has already fallen completely into the hands of a radical Islamist terrorist group called ISIS. While it is true ... ... absence of diligence on the part of Western analysts covering the Middle East than by any miraculous strength of force on the part ... ... region but also perhaps as a direct threat to its own national security goals, given the open declarations from ISIS that it wants ... ... fighter. So welcome one and all to the wonderful craziness of foreign affairs in the modern multipolar world. Where dire enemies ...

01.07.2014

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