Day: January 8, 2019

Syria – Turkey Fails in Idleb, Is Unwilling to Take the Northeast

January 8, 2019 Opinion

The neoconservatives in the Trump administration, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, National Security Advisor John Bolton and the Syria envoy James Jeffery, are scrambling to save their plans for Syria …

What Happens Now with Syria?

January 8, 2019 Opinion

I was typing away the day after Christmas with the warmth of a crackling fire behind me and thinking about the long list of countries involved in the Syrian war drama. They are now scurrying around to…

Trump’s “Anti-Terrorist Strike” in Yemen Serves Domestic and International Purposes

January 8, 2019 Opinion

The world is safer now that there’s one less Al Qaeda terrorist inhabiting it, but Trump’s successful strike against USS Cole bomber Jamal al-Badawi in central Yemen also served several tangential dom…

Indian Muslims: A Rich Hunting Ground for Middle Eastern Rivals

January 8, 2019 Opinion

When President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently declared that Turkey was “the only country that can lead the Muslim world,” he probably wasn’t only thinking of Middle Eastern and other Islamic states suc…

Some Confucian Calm, Please!

January 8, 2019 Opinion

The United States and China look like two punch-drunk prizefighters squaring off for a major championship fight. They have no good reason to fight and every reason to cooperate now that both their sto…

AFRICOM Complicity in Gabon Coup Attempt?

January 8, 2019 Opinion

Trump’s deployment of 80 military personnel to Gabon last week on the basis of preparing for a response to “violent protests” in the nearby Democratic Republic of the Congo might have been a ruse desi…

Trump Derangement International

January 8, 2019 Opinion

Dirk Kurbjuweit, deputy editor-in-chief of Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine for the past 4 years, unwittingly put his foot a mile deep in his mouth this week when he reacted to a letter written by US Am…

Mass Psychosis and The Church of Humanitarian Interventionism

January 8, 2019 Opinion

Ask any American liberal aged sixty-five and older what they think about Franco, Mussolini, or Hitler and they will vehemently denounce these men as tyrants, murderers, and despots. Ask them what they…