Just Back From The Mideast – And I’m Really Worried
February 2, 2013 The Mideast is stumbling into one of its most dangerous crisis in decades. I’m just back from the region – and as an old Mideast hand, I am very worried. This region is always tense,...
View ArticleA WELCOME PAUSE IN THE CRAZINESS OVER SYRIA
May 11, 2013 WASHINGTON DC – The vicious Syrian civil war has put the world’s two biggest nuclear powers on a collision course over a small Levantine nation of no strategic interest to Washington. This...
View ArticleTHOSE OLD COLONIAL LUSTS
June 1, 2013 That old colonial impulse keeps coming back. This past week, Britain and France pushed the rest of the European Union to lift the arms embargo in Syria – which in plain English means...
View ArticleKICKING SAND IN RUSSIA’S FACE
August 10, 2013 The single most important national security imperative for the United States is to maintain correct relations with Russia. It’s not al-Qaida, NSA, China, North Korea, or any other...
View ArticleANOTHER JOLLY LITTLE WAR
August 31, 2013 Let’s face some hard facts about the vicious conflict in Syria. If the US directly attacks Syria, the real cause will not be the recent chemical attacks. What are 300 or so dead in a...
View ArticleSYRIA: MARCH TO DISASTER
September 7, 2013 Recalling the massacres and destruction during the 1820’s Greek war of independence from the Ottoman Empire, then Victor Hugo wrote, “the Turks have passed by here – All is in ruins...
View ArticleOBAMA: DON’T PLAY CHESS WITH KGB
September 15, 2013 President Barack Obama foolishly backed himself into a corner during the growing Syrian crisis by issuing fatwas about mythological red lines. When his bluff got called, the...
View ArticleTHE US SAVES ISRAEL IN THE 1973 WAR
October 12, 2013 Forty years ago–6 October 1973 – Egyptian forces stormed the supposedly “impregnable” Israeli Bar Lev fortifications along the Suez Canal. Syrian forces advanced onto the...
View ArticleWORLD DANGER SPOTS 2014
January 4, 2014 Where are the world’s most dangerous places in 2014? *Mostly forgotten, but the highly dangerous, Indian-controlled portion of disputed Kashmir. Rebellion against Indian rule by...
View ArticleWAR IN SYRIA SET TO INTENSIFY
March 22, 2014 As Syria lies dying, western media cries, “we must save Syria’s suffering children.” Indeed so, among Syria’s nine million internal and external refugees, some 450,000 are children. All...
View ArticleWHY DEAL WHEN ISRAEL HOLDS ALL THE CARDS
May 3, 2014 Did anyone really think that John Kerry’s nine-month effort to produce a Palestinian mini-state would ever work? If so, they were either ignorant of the Mideast, naïve, or deeply cynical....
View ArticleTHE ALLMIGHTY MESS IN IRAQ
June 14, 2014 The late Saddam Hussein was certainly right when he predicted that America’s invasion of Iraq would become “the Mother of All Battles.” Eleven years later, it continues. This week saw the...
View ArticleTHE MOTHER OF ALL BLOWBACK
30 August 2014 President Barack Obama is being lambasted by US Republicans for admitting that “we don’t have a strategy yet” for dealing with the rise of the militant group, ISIS, or Islamic State, as...
View ArticleJUST SAY NO
September 6, 2014 Washington DC – “We’ve got to stop ISIS…al-Qaida…Syria’s Assad…Hamas…Hezbollah…Taliban …Shebab…the wicked Ruskis in Ukraine..those Yemeni Houthis…Iran… Sudan…Islamists in Libya and...
View ArticleDON’T LET LUNATICS MAKE OUR POLICIES
October 25, 2014 NEW YORK – Things seemed crazy in the US and Canada last week, with a shooting on normally tranquil Parliament Hill in Ottawa and a grisly hatchet attack on two New York City...
View ArticleThe Best Congress Money Can Buy
March 14, 2015 Be proud, America! You have the very best Congress that money can buy. It’s no secret that many in the House and Senate have long been corrupted by money and special interests. The...
View ArticleDESTROYING SYRIA TO MAKE IT SAFE FOR AMERICAN VALUES
12 July 2015 “The Turks have passed by here; all is in ruins and mourning. “ So wrote France’s great writer, Victor Hugo, of the horrors he had witnessed during the Balkan liberation wars of the...
View ArticleRUSSIAN MOUSE THREATENS US ELEPHANT
18 SEPT 2015 The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!” So echoed the cry this week from the Pentagon, the US media and Republican candidates for president. How silly. It seems the...
View ArticleTHE RUSSIAN BEAR GROWLS
4 Oct 2015 Frankfurt, Germany –Could anyone in the Obama administration have been so slow-witted to imagine that Russia wouldn’t move hard to counter US efforts to overthrow Moscow’s ally, Syria?...
View ArticleA VILE CRIME…BUT PRODUCTIVE
7 November 2015 Whoever bombed the Russian airliner that was destroyed over Sinai last week must be having a hearty laugh watching the ensuing chaotic reaction of the great powers. As of this writing,...
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