Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Know Your Enemy Al Qaeda’s grand strategy Thomas Joscelyn Thomas Joscelyn is senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. January 20, 2014, Vol. 19, No. 18 In the summer of 2008, Barack Obama, senator and presidential candidate, toured the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq. Obama
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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Iraq Tips Toward the Abyss So far this year, some 7,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed, but Americans don’t seem to have noticed. By Bret Stephens Oct. 22, 2013 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: By doing so little to stop the spiraling chaos in Iraq and Syria, the administration isn’t keeping
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August 24, 2013 The Failed Grand Strategy in the Middle East WALTER RUSSELL MEAD Mr. Mead is the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College and editor-at-large of the American Interest. Associated Press An opponent of Egypt’s President Morsi holds up a picture of Barack Obama and the American
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THE WASHINGTON POST Charles Krauthammer America sidelined, barely relevant By Charles Krauthammer, Published: June 20, 2013 The war in Syria, started by locals, is now a regional conflict, the meeting ground of two warring blocs. On one side, the radical Shiite bloc led by Iran, which overflies Iraq to supply Bashar al-Assad and sends Hezbollah
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The Arab collapse By RALPH PETERS Last Updated: 11:32 PM, May 19, 2013 Posted: 10:47 PM, May 19, 2013 The Arab Spring has unleashed the Arab Collapse. Everybody still standing in the region is picking the flesh of the helpless. The Islamist cancer proved more virulent than Arabs themselves expected, while dying regimes behave
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– FrontPage Magazine – http://frontpagemag.com – How Obama Betrayed America Posted By David Horowitz On May 8, 2013 In Daily Mailer, FrontPage Below is David Horowitz’s new pamphlet, How Obama Betrayed America…And No One is Holding Him Accountable. To order it, click here. “If we have to use force, it is because we
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Washington_Post Chaotic Iraq heads toward a crisis May 4, 2013 By Ryan Crocker Ryan Crocker was ambassador to Iraq from 2007 to 2009. He is the Kissinger Senior Fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute. The situation in Iraq has taken a very dangerous turn. Events there in recent days are reminiscent of those
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April 3, 2013 The Time Has Come for U.S. Airstrikes in Syria If the country becomes a failed state, the biggest winner will be al Qaeda. Our allies will be the losers. By JOSEPH LIEBERMAN Mr. Lieberman is a former four-term U.S. senator from Connecticut In response to recent reports that the Assad regime
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March 19, 2013 Fouad Ajami: Ten Years Ago, an Honorable War Began With Wide Support Now the U.S. has bailed out of Iraq leaving behind little trace. And a strongman is in charge. By FOUAD AJAMI Mr. Ajami is a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and the author, most recently, of “The Syrian
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March 19, 2013 Notable & Quotable The Iraq Liberation Act of 1998, signed into law by President Bill Clinton, committed the U.S. to removing Saddam Hussein from power. From the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998, signed into law by President Bill Clinton, Oct. 31, 1998: Since March 1996, Iraq has systematically sought to
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