Tag: syria

The “Crackpots Club”

Richard C. Young - November 17, 2015

Pat Buchanan looks at recent commentary from leading Republicans relative to ISIS, Syria and Vladimir Putin. Mitt Romney writes in Sunday’s Washington Post: We must wage...

Taki Theodoracopulos on Syria

Richard C. Young - November 6, 2015

“Under The Black Flag”—Taki Takes off the Gloves. From Taki Theodoracopulos, a founding editor of The American Conservative: I have never seen a more...

Boots Back on the Ground

Richard C. Young - October 28, 2015

Are American voters aware that the Obama administration has authorized a boots-back-on-the-ground strategy in Syria? And do voters understand that the goal is to...

Unintended Consequences

Richard C. Young - October 16, 2015

Writing in the WSJ, Yaroslav Trofimov asks, “So how deep—and how permanent—is this deterioration of the U.S. ability to shape events in the Middle...

Syria: “The U.S. Has Nothing Vital At Stake”

Richard C. Young - October 7, 2015

The American Conservative’s Daniel Larison tells readers, “The real shame of Obama’s Syria policy is not that he has mocked his hawkish detractors, but...

Conflicts the U.S. Should Avoid

Richard C. Young - October 5, 2015

The American Conservative’s Daniel Larison writes that the fact the U.S cannot support any of the major groups vying for control of Damascus should make...

No U.S. Stake or Allies

Richard C. Young - September 23, 2015

The American Conservative’s Daniel Larison points out the ongoing folly of the neocon “War Dogs.” Arms provided by the Obama administration to the Syrian opposition...

Hordes of Non-Assimilable Migrants Inundating Europe

Richard C. Young - September 11, 2015

Former CIA bin Laden unit chief Michael Scheuer on Europe’s migrant invasion: The migrants will produce further lawlessness, a debilitating level of societal tensions, enormous...