WASHINGTON — What a delightful change of pace it has been this past week listening to Secretary of State John F. Kerry accuse someone other than U.S. soldiers of committing atrocities against innocent civilians, women, and children during war. His
In response to Re: False Flags: Another skeptic of the Obama administration’s “slam dunk” case on Syria has emerged. Writing at PJ Media, former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy details Al-Qaeda’s ceaseless endeavors over the years to acquire, manufacture, and eventually use chemical
Ed Lasky makes a great point at the American Thinker today: the Obama administration is drafting pro-Israel groups to help sell his Syria policy to Congress (including, alarmingly, the Republican Jewish Coalition). But where are the Arab-American and Muslim groups,
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Sept. 3 (UPI) — Western intelligence services have made much of Hezbollah’s military support for the embattled Damascus regime in Syria’s civil war, but there’s another, less well-known threat emerging there. That’s the growing force of Iraqi Shiite
On Tuesday, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), who is on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, compared Syria to Afghanistan, hours after President Barack Obama said Syria was not like Iraq or Afghanistan. Rubio argued that what happens in Syria is in
The Republican Jewish Coalition has thrown its weight behind efforts to pass congressional authorization for President Barack Obama’s plans for a military strike against Syria over its use of chemical weapons. The RJC believes in good faith that a U.S.
CNS News posted a clip of Charlie Rangel saying he does not support the President’s “red line” in Syria. What’s most striking isn’t Rangel’s answer it’s the question he’s asked by a host on MSNBC (video below): Are you concerned
Bush had the tangible help of dozens of countries — some troops, some medical personnel, some airlift and refueling support — and the on-the-record support (even if not always backed by tangible contributions) of more than 40 countries in his
Now that President Obama has decided to seek authorization for a Syrian strike from Congress, there is much talk about how Republicans must preserve the credibility of the United States, and avoid weakening the presidency, by giving Obama what he
Author and columnist Ann Coulter brought the heat to “Fox and Friends” Tuesday morning (when does she not bring the heat?) and hammered the Obama Administration’s handling of the Syrian situation. Blaming the president for creating the current diplomatic and
Barack Hussein Obama rose to power by attacking–in a somewhat apocryphal 2002 speech–what he called George Walker Bush’s “dumb war” in Iraq. Let us compare Obama’s approach to Syria with Bush’s in Iraq. 1.Bush in Iraq: Attacked an evil regime
On May 27, 2012, BBC News ran a photograph purportedly showing victims of Syrian violence. There was only one problem: it ran a file photo from Iraq in 2003. The picture actually depicted an Iraqi child among lines of body
In the years since the United States first went to war in Iraq, liberal groups and commentators have accused many media outlets of not asking the right or critical questions of the Bush administration. This is something our gatekeepers of
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Let me say this to the American people: I know well that we are weary of war. We’ve ended one war in Iraq, we’re ending another in Afghanistan, and the American people have the good sense to know
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com U.S. Administration lays out the case for Syria intervention Britain’s leaders engage in soul-searching U.S. Administration lays out the case for Syria intervention President Barack Obama says that he has not yet made a
An Al-Qaeda front group based in Iraq and Syria called for Egyptians to take up arms against their country’s military, in an audio message posted on the Internet on Saturday. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) also
(AP) UN experts leave Syria as US edges toward strikeBy RYAN LUCASAssociated PressBEIRUTU.N. experts who collected samples from last week’s alleged chemical weapons strike outside Damascus left Syria for the Netherlands on Saturday, hours after President Barack Obama said he
While discussing action in possible U.S. action in Syria, Radio host Tom Becka and Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE) suggested the country’s chemical weapons may have come from Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq.
Top editors at the supposedly objective New York Times admitted on Friday that its coverage of Syria differs substantially from its coverage of Iraq thanks to the newspaper’s warm feelings toward President Obama. Margaret Sullivan, public editor of the newspaper,
(AP) Obama weighs ‘limited and narrow’ Syria actionBy DAVID ESPO and ELAINE GANLEYAssociated PressWASHINGTONEdging toward a retaliatory strike, President Barack Obama said Friday he is weighing “limited and narrow” action against Syria as the administration bluntly accused Bashar Assad’s government
Speaking at an event for Americans for Prosperity, conservative icon David Horowitz, head of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, took to the microphone to encourage conservatives to “fight fire with fire.” Horowitz, who grew up in a Communist family and
The Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, who is the leader of the Melkite Catholic Church, the leader of Iraq’s Chaldean Catholic Church, and a spokesman for the Russian Orthodox Church have all warned the United States and other western countries that
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com New sectarian bombings kill 86 in Baghdad, Iraq Obama, under international pressure, may be forced to back down on Syria New sectarian bombings kill 86 in Baghdad, Iraq Car wreckage in Sadr City on
via @johnekdahl. And note that the 2007 case was much more serious: Iran was working on an atomic bomb, not deploying gas weapons which, while nasty, are not much more deadly than conventional weapons. We’ve lost all Hope, but Obama’s
