... framing the intervention as Russia taking a responsible and leading role in combating ISIS and preserving state sovereignty/the world order; this in turn can hopefully
... ... operating). It’s not like all of Catholic Europe will be sending holy warriors in a crusade to fight Orthodox Russia’s attempts to annex the ethnic Russian, Orthodox... ... in 2014, when ISIS nearly marched on Baghdad after taking much of the country from Maliki’s sectarian Shiite regime. Now, for the past few years, the big magnet...
A Sensible Grading of Obama’s Middle East Strategy, As Opposed to Republican ... ... in the midst of the worst economic and financial crisis since the Great Depression. Still even more amusing ... ... leadership—led by Iraq’s Prime Minister, Nouri Kemal al-Maliki—with the Sunni or Kurdish minorities, ... ... built on illegally occupied, disputed land in East Jerusalem (which was occupied in 1967 along with the West ... ... D+
Obama deserves some credit for robust public diplomacy consistently condemning Israeli settlement ...
How the Obama Administration Removed Iraq’s Largest Political Obstacle
... ... presidency, he and his Administration realized that Nuri Kamal al-Maliki was part of the problem, not part of the solution. It did ... ... 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,...