Category: Middle East

Ahead of his supposed Big Speech on Tuesday night, President Nobel Peace Prize Who’s Making A Case For Going All Bomby will go on six programs (Politico) Obama will tape interviews Monday afternoon with anchors from ABC, CBS and NBC, as well as with PBS, CNN and Fox News, the White House said. The interviews […]

The NY Times has been doing a Hamlet schtick (to be or not to be), wavering back and forth regarding Syria on the opinion pages from both the Editorial Board and op-ed contributors (remember “Bomb Syria, Even If It’s Illegal“?). Today they find that Mr. Obama did the right thing in sending the whole mess […]

Something a bit humorous from The Telegraph’s Tim Stanley Obama and Syria: Britain has helped Obama rediscover the Constitution. No need to thank us, America This afternoon, President Obama was 35 minutes late to deliver his statement on Syria to the media. Well, he likes to keep his fans waiting. But when he did show […]

Poor Obama. So far, the only two countries he has engaged in a coalition of the willing or something has been France and England. And England has said “nope, no thanks”, in terms of attacking Syria. Well, their Parliament voted against any action on a narrow vote, anyhow, since PM David Cameron did something wild […]

I suppose there’s something raaaaacist in that headline, but, hey, don’t blame me, blame the Politico’s Glenn Thrush and Leigh Munsil, who offer up 5 questions for Obama on Syria President Barack Obama is not a commander in chief drawn to military adventure nor an explainer-in-chief who is especially fond of delivering Oval Office addresses. […]

The White House is pretty sure that the Assad regime in Syria is behind the recent chemical attack, but, now, what are they going to do about it? There are several factors in play. As the Arab Spring started, particularly with the Green Revolution in Iran, Team Obama was MIA, refusing to take a stance. […]

What’s probably “troublesome” is attempting to dig his way out making a pronouncement about their being a “red line” regarding the use of WMD. Which has been crossed. Several times. And Team Obama seems clueless as to what they’re supposed to do. New UN Ambassador Samantha Powers blew off an emergency meeting at the United […]