This Is Not The Way To Fight a War
by Paolo von Schirach — WASHINGTON — If we look at the whole Ukraine drama, the US did not...
Tag: Barack Obama
America Lost Its Ill-Conceived War in Afghanistan
By Paolo von Schirach – WASHINGTON – The longest American war is finally coming to an (unhappy) end. America...
America’s Delicate Democracy How deep ideological divisions breed dysfunction
WASHINGTON – Democracy, anyone? But, yes, of course. We all want democracy. In principle we all agree as to...
Trump’s Remarks On NATO
WASHINGTON – Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump made headlines in Europe when he declared that America would intervene to...
Afghanistan Among The Most Corrupt Countries In The World This war-torn country tops the Transparency International Corruption list. Massive amounts of foreign aid made things worse
WASHINGTON – Remember Afghanistan? Yes, that sorry nation in Asia, sandwiched between Iran and Pakistan. Presidential candidate Barack Obama,...
No More Startups In America The real problem is fewer and fewer new enterprises
WASHINGTON – President Obama confidently declared to the Nation in his last State of the Union Address that the...
By Showing Captured US Sailors Iran Scored A Huge Propaganda Victory The video showing US sailors taken prisoners was released in order to openly humiliate America
WASHINGTON – Two small US Navy boats drifted off course while sailing in the Persian Gulf and ended up...
Obama Talks About Gun Violence In Order To Avoid Embarrassing Issues While major crises pile on, with a clever move the President got everybody to focus on his modest gun control initiative
WASHINGTON – I’ve got to hand it to President Obama. He is a really capable politician. And probably the...
300 Million Guns In America – Limiting New Sales Will Not Cut Murders Obama's attempt to create more stringent procedures amounts to political posturing
WASHINGTON – Here is an interesting (front page) headline from The Financial Times: Obama prepares to impose controls on...
Sargent Bowe Bergdhal Charged With Desertion President Obama had told us that he was a war hero
WASHINGTON – Remember Sargent Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who had been a Taliban prisoner for 5 years and then...