Showing posts with label ISIS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ISIS. Show all posts
Sunday, May 1, 2016

By request: Trump's America First

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Dangerous (a regular commenter) sent me this email: ...I thought you might post something about Trump’s invocation of “America First” as ...
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Saturday, November 28, 2015

Downed Russian plane cools cries for war

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After the attacks in Paris, conservatives were complaining how lackadaisical Obama is in fighting ISIS. So what did the conservatives say af...
Saturday, August 15, 2015

Mideast policy proposals: many kinds of stupid

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What have we learned about the Mideast? Top of the list would have to be that there isn't an easy way in and back out. If we try to li...
Saturday, May 30, 2015

The crazy debate about which Americans caused the rise of ISIS

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Which stupid American or Americans are responsible for the rise of that murder/torture group extraordinaire called ISIS? The usual conserv...
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Saturday, January 31, 2015

Short: Radicals sowing civil conflict

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This idea makes lots of sense: radicals like to create conflict. They thrive at times of disruption, and they often aim to create extra disr...
Sunday, January 25, 2015

Did you notice we survived 2014?

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  Image: gopixpic.com According to conservatives, the world was almost certainly going to end in 2014. The Russians were overrunning ...
Sunday, November 16, 2014

Short: ISIS is profitable terrorism

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Here is a moderately long article about the financing of ISIS. Does that sound boring? To me it doesn't, but maybe to other people. I a...
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Sunday, September 7, 2014

Tiptoe around the War Powers Act

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The US is bombing quite a bit of Iraq these days, targeting the forces of the Islamic State, or whichever name they're using today. (It ...
Thursday, June 12, 2014

How to Lose a Country in 3 Years

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We, the U.S., left Iraq is reasonably good shape. There was a workable agreement between the central government and the Kurds. There was als...
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