Tag Archives: Iraq

You want hypotheticals? Here’s one.

WASHINGTON POST by Charles Krauthammer May 21, 2015 …Mme. Secretary [Clinton]: When you arrived at State, al-Qaeda in Iraq had been crushed and expelled from Anbar. The Iraqi government had from Basra to Sadr City fought and defeated the radical, … Continue reading

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Obama Snatched Ramadi Defeat from Bush Victory

AMERICAN THINKER by Daniel John Sobieski May 20, 2015 The White House description of the fall of Ramadi to ISIS forces we have supposedly been busy degrading and destroying as a “setback” is like the British calling Dunkirk in World … Continue reading

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Open letter from the mother of the first Navy Seal killed in Iraq to General Martin Dempsey

FOX NEWS by Staff April 19, 2015 Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey responded to reports that Ramadi, Iraq is on the verge of an Islamic State today by describing Ramadi as “not symbolic in any way.” … Continue reading

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The Iraq War and Stubborn Myths

WALL STREET JOURNAL by Judith Miller April 3, 2015 I took America to war in Iraq. It was all me. OK, I had some help from a duplicitous vice president, Dick Cheney.Then there was George W. Bush, a gullible president who … Continue reading

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Let Iraq Die: A Case for Partition

WORLD AFFAIRS JOURNAL by Michael J. Totten March/April 2015 Iraq is finished, an expiring, cancerous nation on life support. Pulling the plug might be merciful. It might be cruel. But either way, it’s time to accept the fact that this … Continue reading

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You’ve Got a Friend (Iran)

PJ MEDIA by Richard Fernandez March 2, 2015 One of the reasons why president Obama can’t let Benjamin Netanyahu stand in the way of Iran’s nuclear ambitions is because he needs Tehran’s troops to fight ISIS.  Today the long awaited … Continue reading

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The Amateur in the White House: Obama’s Iranian Folly

THE OBSERVER by Abraham H. Miller February 25, 2015 Barack Obama will go down in history as the American president who enabled the Shi’ite theocracy to become the region’s hegemonic power and looked the other way while Iran developed the … Continue reading

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Assessing the Strategic Threat from ISIS

WASHINGTON INSTITUTE Testimony before House Committee on Foreign Affairs by James F. Jeffrey February 12, 2015 A serious alliance against ISIS built on Sunni Arab states and Turkey cannot hold together over the long term without a more forceful U.S. … Continue reading

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Say It Like It Is

A rare exception for me–posting a Thomas Friedman article–but here goes. NEW YORK TIMES by Thomas L. Friedman January 20, 2015 ….When you don’t call things by their real name, you always get in trouble. And this administration, so fearful … Continue reading

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Israeli team delivers aid to Christians displaced by Islamic State

JERUSALEM POST by Ariel Cohen October 27, 2014 These refugees join the already 1.4 million internally displaced persons and 200,000 refugees already residing in the Kurdish region of Iraq. Earlier this month, the Israeli relief organization, IsraAID provided Yazidi and Christian … Continue reading

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