Tom Friedman is correct in calling for the need of an anti-ISIS coalition. President Obama has been excoriated for declaring that “we don’t have a strategy yet” for effectively confronting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS. In criticizing Obama for taking too much time, Representative Mike Rogers, the Republican chairman of the […]
Rand Paul: Kill ISIS
Rand Paul wants (strategy bereft) Obama to convene a joint session of Congress to make the case that the United States should destroy ISIS . ISIS is not a sovereign state like Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. A targeted, clearly defined mission, with a non-nation-building end game is required, as I have outlined here. Rand Paul, […]
America on the Wrong Track, Say 70%
A new George Washington University poll shows that an overwhelming number of Americans believe that the economy is on the wrong track. The poll, conducted in partnership with The Tarrance Group and Lake Research Partners, found that the economy weighs more heavily on the minds of American voters than gridlock in Washington. Twenty-four percent of […]
Turkey: No Iraq Military Preparations
Here Turkish political analyst Ceylan Ozbudak tells readers that Turkey’s parliament would have to pass a resolution allowing military operations against ISIS in Iraq, and that no such resolution has yet been agreed upon. One wonders why the delay in that, as Ms. Ozbudak reports, ISIS has already attacked the Turkish Embassy in Mosul taking diplomats […]
Battle of Amirli
By working in concert and with assistance from U.S. airstrikes, the Iraqi military, Shiite militiamen and Kurdish peshmerga forces have pushed ISIS back from Amirli, saving 15,000 Turkmen. An Associated Press report by Sinan Salaheddin tells the story at Military.com. About 15,000 Shiite Turkmens were stranded in the farming community, some 105 miles (170 kilometers) north of […]
Mop Up Manpower
As I write , the U.S. can play a part in a defined mission to kill the head of the ISIS snake. But as Pat Buchanan correctly posts: “As the Syrians, Turks, Kurds, and Iraqis have the proximity and manpower to defeat ISIS, they should do this job themselves.” In otherwise boots-on-the-ground mop up work […]
Obama, Clinton Misfire on Syria, ISIS
Rand Paul, in an on-the-money WSJ article, correctly advises Americans that “to interventionists like former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, we would caution that arming the Islamic rebels in Syria created a haven for the Islamic State. We are lucky Mrs. Clinton didn’t get her way and the Obama administration did not bring about regime […]
Washington’s Statists Killing America
The Cato Institute’s Dan Mitchell explains “the left’s reaction to corporate inversions takes political rhetoric to a new level of dishonesty.” As Dan notes, “Every study that looks at business taxation reaches the same conclusion, which is that America’s tax system is punitive and anti-competitive.”
What Will it Take to Stop ISIS?
Angelo Codevilla describes here his plan to defeat ISIS by “by war in the dictionary meaning of the word. To make war is to kill the spirit as well as the body of the enemy, so terribly as to make sure that it will not rise again, and that nobody will want to imitate it.” Codevilla […]
Pat Buchanan on Killing ISIS
In To Defeat the Islamic State, Pat Buchanan outlines the most likely scenario for the leader of ISIS. “As for Abu al-Baghdadi,the self-proclaimed successor to Muhammed, my bet is that he closes out his brief career at an unscheduled meeting with Seal Team 6.” Pat writes: The decisions that determined the fate of the great nations […]
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