Europe Does Not Like America No longer in need of US military protection, many Europeans openly express their contempt
WASHINGTON – In Italy, Alessandro Di Battista, a member of parliament who belongs to the opposition 5 Stelle, (5 Stars),...
Tag: ISIL
Obama Talks About “Containing” ISIL – Not Enough, Eradicate This Cancer Containment worked with the Soviet Union, a super power with thousands of nuclear warheads. Now we are dealing with savage butchery performed by tiny entity
WASHINGTON – The barbaric, made for the internet, execution of James Foley, a US journalist held captive by ISIL, is a sad...
America Should Enable Iraq To Quickly Destroy ISIL If the US does not act, the Islamic State will become a powerful magnet for all Islamic radicals. This would be major trouble for the Region and for the West
WASHINGTON – In politics symbolism is sometimes more powerful that substance. And this is certainly the case regarding the...
Clinton Is Reinventing Herself As A Hawk – Yet America Is Broke Whatever politicians may say about a more muscular foreign policy, the reality is that there is no money to fund it
WASHINGTON – Hillary Clinton is doing her best to distance herself from the hesitant and timid foreign policy pursued by...
The Islamic State Should Be Destroyed, Immediately By now we should know that a political entity founded on a radical anti-Western ideology is a serious threat to America and the world
WASHINGTON – In the 1990s the Clinton administration stupidly under estimated the threat posed by Osama bin Laden and...
No US Boots On the Ground In Iraq Why does the US proclaim in advance what it will not do in the conduct of a critical military operation? It is all about domestic politics
WASHINGTON – “We’ve learned about the limits of our power to spread freedom and democracy. That’s one big lesson...
Obama Inherited The Iraq Mess, But He Made It Worse As Iraq started falling apart, Obama did absolutely nothing. Now it is much harder to stop the crisis
WASHINGTON – So, “Did Obama lose Iraq”? Is it Obama’s fault that a country once at the center of US...
US Air Power Hits Just A Few Small ISIL Targets In Iraq Against a dangerous enemy use US military power massively, "just a little" will not work
WASHINGTON – I recently argued that Obama’s military intervention in Iraq, (through air strikes, no ground troops), lacks conviction,...
Obama’s Intervention In Iraq Lacks Conviction Military actions are about winning, and not about "doing something"
WASHINGTON – What I read in President Obama’s choice of words and demeanor in announcing this new US military engagement...
The Crisis Of the Arab World Will Go On And On Not much that we can do about it. Still, we need to protect ourselves against terrorism, its most dangerous byproduct
WASHINGTON – With sympathy but a great deal of pessimism The Economist examines the state of perennial backwardness of...