Middle East

MORE WAR FOR OIL?

  THE WALL STREET JOURNAL  MORE WAR FOR OIL ? Aug. 13, 2014  The “no blood for oil” crowd has piped up with surprising speed and noisiness in the short hours since President Obama recommitted U.S. forces to the fight in Iraq. Steve Coll, a writer for the New Yorker, suggests in a piece posted

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TALKING WITH JIHADISTS IS A LOSING STRATEGY

  THE WASHINGTON TIMES MAY: Talking with the jihadists is a strategy for losing Radical Islam scorns a lasting peace with the ‘infidels’ By Clifford D. May  Clifford D. May is president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.    June 24, 2014 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:  They could begin to find answers in “The

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DON’T MESS WITH MESSIAHS

  Don’t Mess with Messiahs July 1, 2014  /victorhanson Whenever things go wrong, it’s the fault of those obstructionists in Congress. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online EXCERPT FROM  THIS ARTICLE:  Again, the message seems to be something like, “One way or another we are going to grow government, broaden the progressive base,

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THE HIGH PRICE OF OBAMA FATIGUE

  THE WALL STREET JOURNAL THE HIGH PRICE OF OBAMA FATIGUE  June 19, 2014 With 2½ years left in the Obama presidency, it is at least an open question what will be left of it by December 2016. Or us. In this week’s Wall Street Journal-NBC poll, conducted as the disintegration of Iraq began, Mr.

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AMERICA’S MIDDLE EAST DILEMMA – VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

  America’s Middle East Dilemma June 19, 2014 Toppling tyrants is ineffective in the long term without years of unpopular occupation. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Two and a half years ago, the U.S. pulled every soldier out of a mostly quiet Iraq. In the void thus created, formerly al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorists calling

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THE COLLAPSING OBAMA DOCTRINE – DICK AND LIZ CHENEY

  THE WALL STREET JOURNAL THE COLLAPSING OBAMA DOCTRINE Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many.  By Dick Cheney And Liz Cheney Mr. Cheney was U.S. vice president from 2001-09. Ms. Cheney was the deputy assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs from 2002-04

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2 VIDEO INTERVIEWS – ROMNEY AND REPRESENTATIVE MIKE ROGERS

    AL QAEDA ARMY ON THE MOVE  IN IRAQ VIDEO –  ROMNEY INTERVIEWED   http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/06/15/romney_clintons_reset_button_should_have_been_called_repeat_button.html VIDEO – REPRESENTATIVE MIKE ROGERS INTERVIEWED ABOUT IRAQ http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/06/15/rep_mike_rogers_theres_an_al-qaeda_army_on_the_move.html

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THE MEN WHO SEALED IRAQ’S DISASTER WITH A HANDSHAKE

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL THE MEN WHO SEALED IRAQ’S DISASTER WITH A HANDSHAKE Obama’s rush for the exit and Maliki’s autocratic rule ensured that much hard-won progress would not last.  By Fouad Ajami   Mr. Ajami, a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, is the author, most recently, of “The Syrian Rebellion” (Hoover Press, 2012).   

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