Does Obama Mean Business Against ISIL? There is a huge gap between stated goals and military means WASHINGTON – A few days ago, after President Obama via a prime time TV address had announced America’s goal...
Tepid Support For The War Against ISIL – Conflict Will Drag On Arab states should be leading, but they will not. US and Europe have no money, limited will WASHINGTON – The Obama inspired anti-ISIL (also known as ISIS and IS, for Islamic State) coalition is growing –on paper. In...
Let Obama Run The War Against ISIL As He Sees Fit Advice should be offered by qualified people, and only in private. Let us not complicate the mission with poisonous political attacks WASHINGTON – After months of timidity and confusion on what needs to be done, finally in a prime time TV speech...
NYT Op-Ed Calls ISIS “A Militant Group” – Talk About Understatement By using this misleading definition, the writer plays down the extent of the threat WASHINGTON – Charles M. Blow, NYT columnist, in an article, (Obama and the Warmongers, August 31, 2014), points out...
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),...
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...
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...
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...