Platitudes are not policy. At least, they shouldn’t be. But they’re all Obama’s got. Read the whole thing. Does Obama actually believe his own gobbledegook? Hinderaker seems to think so, but I have grave doubts.
Continue reading →[NOTE: I originally put this post up a little while ago as an update to the post right below it. But just in case many of you fail to notice it, I thought I’d put it up here as a … Continue reading →
[See updates at end of post] Shortly after 9/11 I discovered blogs, and I remember reading a quip that caught my eye. I don’t remember who wrote it, but it went something like this: “I just realized what the problem … Continue reading →
On Saturday I linked to a post by Richard Fernandez describing how ISIS is threatening the dams of Iraq. Sure enough, right on schedule, we learn that the Mosul Dam has been captured by the terrorist group. Ace writes: However, … Continue reading →
Read this. I can’t read about Iraq today without feeling rage at President Obama for his failure to negotiate a SOFA agreement—his politically motivated and short-sighted abandonment and betrayal of Iraq, our military who fought and died there, and decency. … Continue reading →
The Christians of Iraq in the areas controlled by ISIS are being persecuted and either killed or driven from places they’ve occupied since the dawn of Christianity. Not that Obama could stop it at this point (although he probably could … Continue reading →
Be afraid. Be very afraid (from Walter Russell Mead): A group [ISIS] more radical than al-Qaeda, better organized, better financed, commanding the loyalty of thousands of dedicated fanatics including many with Western and even U.S. passports? And this group now … Continue reading →
Obama’s laissez faire attitude towards Iraq has led us from this good news to its opposite: The insurgents came at midday, walking across a canal, advancing under cover of mortar fire toward the cluster of three Iraqi villages. Within eight … Continue reading →
…if Obama sends 300 advisors there? Think about it. As James Oliphant points out—in a piece which indicates that the writer would answer “fool” to the knave vs. fool question—“the move is a tacit acknowledgment that many of the assumptions … Continue reading →
One dire prognostication that might come true: The fall of Mosul and the advance of ISIS””the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, an al-Qaida offshoot””toward Baghdad last week prompted headlines warning that Islamist militants aim to redraw the map … Continue reading →
That headline of mine was a trick. No, George Bush hasn’t commented on present events in Iraq, probably because he doesn’t believe it helpful for ex-presidents to criticize their successors. But he already described the whole thing back in 2007, … Continue reading →
—abhors a vacuum. And so Iran rushes in where Obama fears to tread: U.S. and senior Iraqi officials tell The Daily Beast that Iran is now offering the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki its army, its spies and highly … Continue reading →