Dec 30, 2017 – With the liberation of ISIS’s capital and the vast majority of its territory, the end of the ISIS caliphate is in sight. … Now, as stated earlier, the war is not over. … The unemployment rate is the lowest it’s been in almost two decades at 4.1 percent, and consumer confidence is at a 17-year high.…

Dec 30, 2017 – Tehran is trying its utmost to conceal this war at home between the people and the regime. … It is incumbent upon us as individuals, nation states, and communities of nation states to put pressure on the regime to give access … A concerted and comprehensive international pressure on a regime already at war with its people can help bring closure to the families…

Dec 29, 2017 – The economy, with the boot of Barack Obama off its neck, has been growing at 3 percent. … And though Democrats have three times as many seats at risk in 2018, the GOP losing the Senate is not beyond the realm of possibility … In this city there is also a powerful propaganda push to have this country tear up the nuclear deal John Kerry negotiated with Iran…

Dec 21, 2017 – But part of the blame still rests with us. … The economy is booming, but President Trump isn’t getting the credit with the liberal media. … The last issue is of course entangled with the great collusion debate — but it’s still a good thing that our mini-cold war has remained…

May 15, 2015 – The summit was meant to compensate the Sunni Arabs for Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran. … With the Iranian-backed Houthis’ takeover of Yemen and the US’s conclusion of its framework nuclear deal with Iran, the Saudis apparently … Israel’s reason for wanting to work with the Saudis and their neighbors is the same as their reason for wanting to work with us.…

May 13, 2015 – A US delegation led by Undersecretary of State Wendy Sherman is due to join the Vienna talks on Wednesday. … certainly assure us that such language is aimed purely at a domestic political audience.  … Oh, and by the way, Iran is still actively cheating.  As these negotiations play out.  …

May 27, 2015 – in the Iraqi War, barely registered a blip on the Administration’s radar. … With a very straight face, the young Mr. … The list of serious issues facing the United States is long: unresolved crises at our borders, civil liberties and the NSA, the national…

May 27, 2015 – It is an ironic perspective coming from someone who is negotiating with an enemy, Iran, who chants “death to America” while they are … What is most disconcerting is the stretch to align climate change as a cause for Islamic terrorism, at least one specific group. … tool for the enemy – perhaps the climate at GITMO is also not to their liking.…

May 26, 2015 – Here we have an actual -- non-political -- war on women, via the Washington Post: Amid all the Islamic State's atrocities — its … The youngest, and those considered the prettiest virgins fetch higher prices and are sent to Raqqa, the IS stronghold. … As ISIS 'inches closer' to the Iraqi capital, CNN reports that the mood is darkening in Baghdad: The "good" news is that locals…

May 24, 2015 – And a further one that official Washington gets away with meandering along merely changing suits at the VA and claiming it’s fixed, … at war against the Islamic State? … The Islamic State may wish to be at war with the U.S., but we don’t have to humor them.…

May 21, 2015 – If the former, then the question was whether the war on balance was worth its costs. … That wholesale withdrawal — which was also widely supported at the time — created a vacuum that ISIS and Iran have filled with blood … World War II, the "good war," the war to liberate Europe from Adolf Hitler, ended with America acquiescing in the enslavement of Eastern…

Jun 9, 2015 – Toward the end of the presidency of George H.W. Bush, America stood alone at the top of the world -- the sole superpower. … China and Russia are closer to each other and more antagonistic toward us than at any time since the Cold War. … With the exception of the Soviet Union, some geostrategists contend, no nation, not defeated in war, has ever suffered so rapid a decline…

Jun 5, 2015 – A coalition, at the heart of which is the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front, seized Idlib province in northern Syria and is moving toward … Syria's border with Lebanon is becoming a war zone. … It is time we stopped letting other nations pick the enemies for us to fight.…

Jun 3, 2015 – Any similarity between this scenario and the pattern followed during the long, drawn-out negotiations with Iran is not purely coincidental … The US Navy has the muscle to enforce international maritime law. The question is whether US political leaders have the will. … China’s military, though currently no match for that of the US, is likely to receive annual double-digit budget increases over the…

Jun 18, 2015 – Western Europe is terrified of Putin and mostly disarmed. The European Union is awash with debt. … Meanwhile, Japan rearms and is trying in vain to forge a common anti-Chinese front with the Philippines, Taiwan and South Korea. … Or the United States will not be bothered — at least until this new generation of dictators bothers us at home.…

Jun 12, 2015 – Which brings us to the bad news: Al-Qaida is dying out because it's being replaced by something far worse. … The fact that Obama is seen to favor Iran and the Shia makes trust even more difficult. … The Islamic State is exciting and even fun, at least for a certain kind of fanatic.…

Jun 12, 2015 – Let's look at the war on terror. … This administration is deliberately fanning the flames of division in this nation, and this distrust is tearing away at the fabric … God help us, and God save the republic.…

Jun 25, 2015 – At least, in the IBD ‘toon, the titanic vessel of scandals was actually in the picture as opposed to the NYT and State Media organs … In keeping with the progressive bucket list, flashed at us at every conceivable moment, HRC is the likely nominee and first woman president-elect … Clinton is elected, at age 69, Bill will move back into the White House and we start all over again, but that will not be HRC’s biggest…

Jun 24, 2015 – Looking at President Obama’s foreign policy toward the Muslim world, especially Iran, makes me feel like America has followed Alice … They don’t want peace with us; we are the Great Satan, and they want to destroy us. Back to realpolitik. … The situation in the Iran nuclear arms talks is dire.…

Jul 3, 2015 – They not only allow the US to hold a key presence in the region; they also give the US a strategic foothold at Russia's doorstep. … Because Turkey is such an asset for the US, the administration is likely aiming to keep Turkey happy by keeping the Kurds relatively … It is reasonable to assume the US could keep good relations with Turkey without going so far as to block other countries' aid to the…

Jul 3, 2015 – play fast and loose with the rules.  … The progressive war on reality The war on truth is rapidly devolving into a war on reality itself. … · We help Iran obtain nuclear weapons, putting Israel and the rest of the world at risk.…

Jul 2, 2015 – Like many Americans at the time of the War of the Rebellion whose families fought for both sides, I too have ancestors who served bravely … and which is being used by the Obama administration to further divide us and distract us from grave issues facing this nation. … The Obama Administration seems intent on bringing home a nuclear deal with Iran, regardless of the conditions being insisted on by…

Jun 30, 2015 – The U.S. and five other world powers have crafted a framework of a deal with Iran to keep it from developing nuclear weapons. … Now US intelligence officials are worried that Assad is about to step up his deployment of WMDs to an extraordinary levels, using the … Team Smart Power is still going full steam ahead with the Iran negotiations, though. What could go wrong?…

Jul 17, 2015 – The House, with a large GOP majority, is considered more likely to follow suit. … Whatever happens in the forthcoming fight over the Iran nuclear deal, it is sure to become a major issue in the 2016 elections -- one … who has lied to us one too many times, or at least embellished the facts.…

Jul 17, 2015 – is small potatoes in comparison to the destruction that Tuesday’s deal with Iran has wrought. … The other possible outcome of a congressional rejection of the deal is that Iran will stay in the deal and the US will be the odd man … at war not only with Turkey, but with NATO.…