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Category Archives: Global Security Issues
Benghazi Is Not A Tom Clancy Novel
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Share the post “Benghazi Is Not A Tom Clancy Novel”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail On CNN yesterday, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) expressed dissonant disapproval of the president’s failure to teleport reinforcements to the US consulate in Benghazi. You have to admire the way he … Continue reading
Arc de Triomphe a la Syria
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Share the post “Arc de Triomphe a la Syria”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Continuing violence and atrocities are obviating any peace initiative in Syria: France now says the Security Council should consider the use of force in Syria if a UN-backed peace plan proposed … Continue reading
The Zelikow Memorandum
Share the post “The Zelikow Memorandum”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail The newly-unearthed Zelikow memorandum is interesting as historic record, like the dissenting opinion in an 8-1 Supreme Court decision. There has been some speculation that it provides a “smoking gun” to reopen the possibility … Continue reading
The Syrian Experiment
Share the post “The Syrian Experiment”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailAs I said yesterday morning, China and Russia are using Syria as a laboratory for non-intervention. With a death toll already in the thousands, the opposition shows no sign of giving up and neither does … Continue reading
Syria is an Experiment in Non-intervention (UPDATED)
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Share the post “Syria is an Experiment in Non-intervention (UPDATED)”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailAnd the Syrian people are losing. The news this morning is all about Syria exploding. Reports of aircraft being used to coordinate ground fire — including heavy weapons and artillery — … Continue reading
Now Obama Is Secretly Jewish
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Share the post “Now Obama Is Secretly Jewish”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Not only is Obama secretly Muslim, he’s also secretly Jewish: Obama is the “the first Jewish President”. That’s the title of New York magazine’s lead article, written by John Heilemann and quoting a … Continue reading
Posted in Global Governance, Global Security Issues, Kulturkampf
Tagged Israel, jewish, middle east, obama, obama conspiracy
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The Triumphant Return of the French Empire
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Share the post “The Triumphant Return of the French Empire”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailCall it “Revenge of the Freedom Fries.” Sarkozy is being lionized: Mr. Sarkozy, as ever, was passionate about his government’s accomplishments, both in helping oust the defeated president of Ivory Coast, … Continue reading
The Greenwald Misconceptions
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Share the post “The Greenwald Misconceptions”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailJuan Cole, in the most readable essay of the week, hammers Glenn Greenwald for his insistence that America led the charge to intervention in Libya: There is no evidence for this allegation whatsoever. When I … Continue reading
Posted in Glenn Greenwald, Global Security Issues, historical determinism, Jasmine Revolutions, progressives
Tagged libya
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Door Slamming Shut on Ghadafi
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Share the post “Door Slamming Shut on Ghadafi”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail News reports out of Libya have rebels advancing around the Tripolitan plain and moving toward the strategic towns of Gharyan, Tarhuna, and Al Khunis. When these towns fall, Ghadafi will have nowhere … Continue reading
Food Insecurity
Share the post “Food Insecurity”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailHitler’s Panzers turned south in late 1942, away from Moscow, in order to roll up the Ukrainian breadbasket. Few retrospectives of Nazi Germany take account of food insecurity in a growing German nation back then, decades … Continue reading
The Opposite of Iraq
Share the post “The Opposite of Iraq”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailGlenn Greenwald makes a prima facie case that America’s role in Libya is illegal, which (of course) makes this president worse than Bush. He summarizes the White House position thusly: (1) the War Powers … Continue reading
