Pat Buchanan writes, ”It is the Sunni Arabs, the royals on the Arabian Peninsula and the sheiks on the Gulf, to whom this should be a fire bell in the night. For ISIS is out to dethrone these perceived royal puppets of a detested America and to reclaim rightful custody of Mecca and Medina.” What […]
Former bin Laden Unit Chief Speaks
Michael Scheuer, formerly chief of the CIA’s bin Laden unit, tells Americans, “Relentless intervention and open borders have, respectively, earned America war with an increasing portion of the Muslim world and allowed our Islamist enemies into the United States undetected. Dr. Scheuer advises: (1) The United States should withdraw all of its personnel and moveable […]
Appeler un Chat un Chat, Monsieur Obama
After the horrific attacks on Charlie Hebdo earlier this month, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls identified “radical Islam” as the enemy of France. In an almost surreal attempt not to mix Islamist terrorists with the wide community of Muslims around the world, however, President Obama and his administration went to great lengths to insist that […]
ISIS on the Run
The Wall Street Journal reports that U.S.-led airstrikes have wiped out 6,000 of ISIS’s 14,000 core fighters and half of its core leadership. Straight line these numbers out just a few months and ISIS may be reduced to near irrelevance. That is certain to be the case if, after two near misses, the head of […]
Obama/Hillary Fail in Libya
Bloomberg reports on the chaos enveloping Libya after Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton unwisely used American military might to create a power vacuum in the country. Islamic extremists have captured Tripoli and warfare is creating oil field stoppages. Libya’s National Oil Corp. declared force majeure at the ports of Es Sider and Ras Lanuf and will halt […]
Three Losers For America: Israel, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia
Originally posted October 15, 2014. Here American Conservative co-founding editor Scott McConnell lays bare the foreign policy truth that the political elite in Washington,to the detriment of all Americans,refuse to embrace. My post on Cato Institute’s Justin Logan follows an equally correct track. Voters have an opportunity this fall to arm themselves with the common […]
FN’s Marine Le Pen Would Win French Presidential Election
Here Le Pen strikes out hard against ISIS. Read here from I24News: Controversial French far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Thursday called her country to step up the efforts against the “offensive” of the “international Islamism” in Iraq and Lebanon, where the Islamic State jihadists continued their formidable streak of military victories. “While the […]
Putting Lipstick on the Iraq War Pig
Editor’s Note: This piece originally was posted on February 5, 2014, but is back by popular demand. I am in print as against the Iraq war from day one. Former national security advisor Stephen Hadley makes the case that the Iraq war was indeed worth fighting. Here the Cato Institute’s Chris Preble outlines Mr. Hadley’s […]
The Kurds, Unlikely Winners
As Sunni insurgents have sent Iraq’s Shia controlled military south at a rapid clip, Kurdish leaders have taken advantage of the power vacuum in cities like Kirkuk. The Wall Street Journal reports that as government forces fled, Kurdish troops began occupying key positions with no sign they’ll withdraw if or when the conflict between the Sunnis […]
Meet Kurdistan’s Peshmerga
The well-disciplined peshmerga are Kurdistan’s pro-American army. The peshmerga are now in complete control of Kirkuk giving the Kurds all of Kurdistan in Iraq, including the giant Kirkuk oil fields. Here Peter Galbraith, author of “The End of Iraq,” lays out the whole story. Kurdistan’s military, called the peshmerga, is ideally situated to combat ISIS. The […]
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