Musings on a Sunday
This and that… Let me make this clear at the outset: I do not think Romney should run in 2016, and I do not think he will run in 2016. That said, I agree with this article that points out … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Iraq
Obama’s tough love towards Iraq: that’ll teach ’em
Quite some time ago I came to the point of having difficulty reading Obama’s speeches and interviews in full. I don’t mean cognitive difficulty; I understand them well enough. I mean a weariness at the overwhelming combination of factual errors, … Continue reading →
Peace Prize in our time
That Nobel Peace Prize for Obama certainly was premature, wasn’t it? Since he has become president, it’s been a challenge to name a part of the world that has not gotten worse rather than better. Turns out that America as … Continue reading →
John Hinderaker on Obama’s bombing announcement
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 →Obama orders airstrikes—perhaps
[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 →
Genocide in Iraq: the plight of the Yazidi
[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 →
Iraq update: water over the dam
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 →
Want to feel angry?
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 →
Obama and the Christians of Iraq
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 →
The disaster that is Obama’s foreign policy
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 →
Iraq quickly fracturing along ethnic and religious lines
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 →
How bad must it be in Iraq…
…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 →