Tag: ISIS

Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi Killed?

The Editors - November 10, 2014

Al-Aribya News is reporting that ISIS leader Abu-Bakr Al-Baghdadi may have been critically injured or killed in a U.S. airstrike that targeted a meeting...

Conquer and Occupy Mecca?

Richard C. Young - November 6, 2014

William Pfaff (a veteran observer) asks "is it fully appreciated in Washington that the 'New Caliphate' has every intention of taking over the existing...

We Have No Credible Strategy

Richard C. Young - October 28, 2014

Pat Buchanan explains that "We are now on both sides of the Sunni-Shia sectarian struggle that has never been America’s war." Pat writes: The Islamic...

Sunnis Aren’t Biting

Richard C. Young - October 20, 2014

Obama needs Iraq’s Sunnis against ISIS. And it appears to be a no-go. Here State Department whistle blower Peter Van Buren explains what’s going...

U.S.Repeating Past Mistakes

Richard C. Young - October 20, 2014

Here the American Conservative’s Daniel Larison explains America’s tendency to exaggerate foreign threats. Stephen Walt sees the U.S. repeating past mistakes in its war on...

The U.S. in a Geopolitical Minefield

Richard C. Young - October 17, 2014

The Cato Institute's Ted Galen Carpenter asks if the U.S. is prepared to stay involved in a multi-decade regional Middle East power struggle. U.S. and...

How to Create Terrorists at Home

E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy - October 15, 2014

A thoughtful debate by Congress, not just by the president and his insiders, might get us to the root of the problem that is...

VIDEO: War without Debate

E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy - October 14, 2014

From Cato Institute: Featuring Gene Healy, Vice President, Cato Institute; and Christopher Preble, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; moderated by...

Escalation in Syria Inevitable?

The Editors - October 9, 2014

Daniel Larison at The American Conservative writes that the President may have trapped himself into inevitable escalation in the war in Syria. Vietnam comparisons are...