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Tag Archives: Bashar Assad
Israel Threatens to Destroy Iranian Positions Near Its Border
If you’re tired of all this Arab-on-Arab fighting, Israel is indicating it may have to do some direct clobbering itself: Kuwaiti newspaper Al Jarida revealed on Sunday that an Israeli source disclosed a promise from Jerusalem to destroy all Iranian … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Policy, Jihad
Tagged Bashar Assad, Foreign Policy, Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah, Iran, Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Israel, Jihad, Middle East, Qassem Suleimani, Qods Force, Russia, Syria
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LinkSwarm for April 7, 2017
Welcome to another Friday LinkSwarm! I’m still not wild about President Trump’s decision to strike a Syrian airfield with cruise missiles last night, but the decision makes more sense if you look at it less of a tool to make … Continue reading
Posted in Democrats, Elections, Foreign Policy, Jihad, Media Watch, Military, Obama Scandals, Social Justice Warriors, Supreme Court, Texas
Tagged 2016 Presidential Race, Ali Khamenei, Bashar Assad, Canada, China, Chuck Schumer, Democrats, Don Rickles, Donald Trump, ESPN, feminists, Foreign Policy, Frank Sinatra, Google, Harry Reid, I-35, Iran, Israel, Jihad, John Kerry, Kim Jong-Un, LinkSwarm, Marines, Media Watch, Mike Pence, Military, Neil Gorsuch, Obama Scandals, Pete Singer, Rolling Stone, Russia, San Antonio, Shayrat Airbase, Social Justice Warriors, Supreme Court, Susan Rice, Texas, unemployment, Xi Jinping
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Intervening in Syria is STILL a Bad Idea
Note: This post is 75% rerun by weight from this piece, because pretty much all the reasons listed there are still valid. Following a new report of chemical weapons use by the Assad regime in Syria, certain factions of the … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Policy, Military
Tagged Bashar Assad, chemical weapons, Donald Trump, Foreign Policy, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, John Kerry, Kurds, S. E. Cupp, Syria
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Aleppo Falls
The Syrian city of Aleppo has fallen to pro-Assad forces. This was an all-but-inevitable result, given the Russian airpower backing Bashar Assad and the disorganized nature of the opposing forces and the desultory backing those forces received from the likes … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Policy, Jihad
Tagged Aleppo, Bashar Assad, Foreign Policy, Hafez Assad, Iran, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Jihad, Middle East, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen
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So What The Hell Is Going On in Syria?
The problem with doing an update on Syria is that I’m not sure anyone knows what the hell is going on there. The motivations of the major local players are clear: Assad wants to survive and maintain power, while his … Continue reading
$500 Million for 54 Syrian Rebels?
Anyone paying attention has long known what a miserable failure Obama’s Syrian strategy (such as it is) against Bashar Assad has been. But only recently has it come to light just how ridiculously expensive that miserable failure has been: The … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Policy, Jihad, Military
Tagged al-Baghdadi, Bashar Assad, Foreign Policy, Iran, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Jihad, John Kerry, Military, Obama, Russia, Syria
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Why Did Obama Back Jihadists in Syria?
This piece in Foreign Policy Journal is certainly eye-opening: In Al Jazeera’s latest Head to Head episode, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency Michael Flynn confirms to Mehdi Hasan that not only had he studied the DIA memo predicting … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Policy, Jihad, Military
Tagged Bashar Assad, Egypt, Foreign Policy, Iran, Israel, Jihad, Middle East, Military, Obama, Saudi Arabia, Syria
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Iraq/Syria/ISIS Update
Since Iraq and Syria are now all part of the same greater Sunni/Shia conflict, let’s take a look at recent developments in the broader theater: The War Nerd pinpoints the biggest reason for ISIS’s rapid Iraq advance: the flat geography … Continue reading
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Tagged Bashar Assad, Iran, Iraq, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Jihad, Kurdistan, Kurds, Michael Totten, Military, Pesh Merga, Syria, War Nerd
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Iraq: It’s All George W. Bush’s Fault
(Note: This headline is only slightly factitious.) The problem with George W. Bush’s Middle East policy is that there’s no political gain there, no matter how great the price or resounding the achievement, that Obama can’t throw away through his … Continue reading