Iraq

Diplomacy Carterizes

by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Reset/Outreach R.I.P It is not surprising how little foreign policy comes up in the debates, given the sorry state of the economy. Share This

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Two Bad September Days

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Two terrible September days sum up the first decade of the new American millennium. Share This

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Iraq’s Christians Near Extinction

by Raymond Ibrahim FrontPage Magazine A recent Fox News report tells of how “a rash of attacks on Christian-owned businesses in northern Iraq has raised troubling questions about the future safety of the country’s shrinking Christian community, particularly as US forces withdraw completely from the nation they’ve refereed since 2003.” Share This

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Obama’s Christmas Gift to Iran

by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPage Magazine As the last American troops roll south to Kuwait, the end of the war in Iraq invites unsettling comparisons to another war America declared over before losing its nerve and snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Share This

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A Tale of Two Surges

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services From 2007 to 2009, a surge of 20,000 troops under the generalship of David Petraeus saved a mostly lost war in Iraq. Share This

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The Pathology of Double Standards

by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPage Magazine The surreal moral idiocy that characterizes hatred of Israel is illustrated daily by states whose actions are shrugged away by the international media. Share This

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The Middle East Mess

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Libya, Iraq, Syria, Iran, and the All the Same Old, Same Old Mess Each country in the Middle East poses unique challenges. That said, gender apartheid, religious intolerance, tribalism, dictatorship, statism, and lack of transparency and free expression are widely shared in the region, and mean that any particular …

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Taking Our Eye Off the Jihadist Ball

by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPage Magazine Given our economic doldrums and the still metastasizing debt, the legislation raising the debt ceiling won’t keep the economy from dominating the nation’s attention until next year’s election. Share This

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An Honest Obama Campaign

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Given what we know now, I think Obama’s summer-2008 campaign speeches should have sounded something like this: Share This

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The Silent Extermination of Iraq’s ‘Christian Dogs’

Raymond Ibrahim FrontPageMagazine.com Last week an Iraqi Muslim scholar issued a fatwa that, among other barbarities, asserts that “it is permissible to spill the blood of Iraqi Christians.” Share This

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