Foreign Affairs
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Ukraine: Let’s coin a new term for an old tactic, ‘Bolshelinskyism’
Ghosts on the prowl.
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Ukrainian government tracks mobile phones belonging to protesters
In November, protests began in the Ukraine after President Viktor F. Yanukovich “negotiated a financial aid deal with Russia” and “declined…
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Bombshell: AFRICOM wasn’t aware of CIA annex in Benghazi
The recently released Senate report on the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the CIA annex contains a detail that is likely to…
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French teens joining jihad in Syria is a growing ‘phenomenon’
Manual Valls, France’s interior minister and “star of its Socialist government,” as described by Spiegel, discussed a growing trend of teenagers from…
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Under secret deal, ‘commission’, not U.S., verifies Iran nukes
We have favored military action against Iran’s ruling Islamist-terror-regime mullahs before their nuclear arms program was uncovered and even before…
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Obama calls on Myanmar to protect Muslims, ignores slaughter of Christians
Recent clashes between the Buddhist majority and Muslim minority in the Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar have prompted the Obama…
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Syrian cleric with radical jihadist views granted U.S. visa
A Syrian cleric who called Jews the “worst enemies of God” and Islam and “a hotbed of vices and evils”…
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Obama fighting to ‘protect’ Iran deal from Congress?
An article at LU yesterday noted in passing that Barack Obama is number 2 on the list of the world’s most…
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Great news: China preparing to seize Philippines-claimed island
Even more interesting times.
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Marco Rubio: Obama ’emboldening the Taliban’ with weak foreign policy
While appearing on Sunday’s edition of CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., accused Barack Obama of “emboldening the…
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Analyst says, ‘Protracted civil war will fragment Afghanistan’ without U.S. troops
Muslim terrorists are biding their time in Pakistan, waiting for another chance to regain control of Afghanistan. Chaos is expected,…
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Sunday news shows’ fixation on Bridgegate
The Sunday after terrorists stormed the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, the weekly news shows covered the attacks, more or…
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Remembering Ariel Sharon, 1928-2014
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon passed away Saturday at the age of 85. He never recovered from the devastating…
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Euphrates corridor: Jihadis, and territorial gains, metastasizing
Geographizing the fight.
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Fleeing the Gulf, aligning with Hezbollah and Iran
You thought Jimmy Carter was bad? Carter at least continued decades-old American policies – if on a sort of “less…
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Chinese power move in South China Sea: This is big
Mariners and the specialty mariner press know it’s big. But mariners can’t fix this. It will take national policies to…
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Did Kim Jong-Un ‘off’ his aunt as well?
An item at yesterday’s Mail Online makes a nice companion piece to Kevin Whiteman’s recent report that Dennis Rodman’s BFF, Kim Jung-un, murdered his…
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Great news: Maritime lawlessness back in the Med
The Libyan navy reportedly fired on Sunday at a tanker that tried to enter a militia-held port in Eastern Libya…
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If only Obama had drawn Saddam’s red-WMD line?
Does anyone on Earth believe that the Bashir Assad-Syrian-puppet of the terrorist nation of Iran is voluntarily surrendering all of…
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Chinese warship arrives off Syria
How many warships does it take to remove chemical weapons from Syria? One more this week than it took last…
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Flashback: Blind Sheik’s attorney endorses violence to stop capitalism
Omar Abdel-Rahman’s self-proclaimed “Maoist” attorney, Lynne Stewart, was “still combative” after she was convicted of “aiding terrorism,” as was reported in…
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Missiles for Hezbollah; a dilemma for U.S., Saudis, Israel?
An interesting juncture is shaping up for three national policies: a juncture that will see its interactions played out on…
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The crown in the gutter: Saudis, Lebanon, and Middle Eastern realignment
The end of the year is a hard time to write about developing trends. There’s a lot to say, long-term…
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Does the Tea Party subscribe to an ‘isolationist’ foreign policy?
Leslie H. Gelb & Michael Kramer of the Democracy Journal are quite worried about what they see as a potentially…
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LA Times blames George W. Bush for violence against Christians in Iraq
Yesterday, Michael McGough of the Los Angeles Times wrote an opinion piece titled “Bush’s Middle East ‘crusade’ hasn’t been very good for…
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Taqiyya and Hudaybiyyah: The non-deal Iran ‘deal,’ Week 5
When we left our story last time, Iran hadn’t agreed to anything except further negotiation (if she felt like it),…
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Shocker: South Sudanese faction that shot at U.S. aircraft supplied by Iran, China
Three U.S. Osprey aircraft were hit by rebel fire in South Sudan on Saturday during an evacuation operation for American…
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