Iraq mission 'right and just': Abbott
Australia's military mission to Iraq is right, just and necessary. That was the message Prime Minister Tony Abbott delivered to Australian Defence Force personnel as they prepared to head to the Middle East on Thursday. The government has yet to commit to ...
Ask a Liberal: Who Lost Iraq?
Who lost Iraq? In so many words, that is now the increasingly potent counter to years of liberal charges that America’s problems in the world can be traced to the Bush-Cheney foreign policy — specifically the invasion of 2003. The question has now ...
Two pieces of good news yesterday
In a trouble world of deceit and treachery when everything is all about self and money, two good pieces of news came out yesterday. The first, Obama has decided to go bombing the IS in Iraq and Syria all over again. Now why is this good news? To the Americans they have found a way to spend their wea ...
How to Deal With Islamic State? Promote Inclusiveness and Tolerance
The Islamic State seal. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. JNS.org - The Washington Post recently featured an article on the revival of Yazidi culture and faith in Iraq by Gabriel Scheinmann, the director of policy at the Jewish Policy Center. Such a revival occurred thanks to the protection afforded to the ...
What Egypt’s President Sisi Really Thinks
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. Photo: Russian Presidential Press and Information Office. Former air marshal Husni Mubarak, now 86, had ruled Egypt for 30 years when his military colleagues forced him from office in 2011. Three years and many upheavals later, those same colleagues replaced ...
Syrian Brotherhood Stands Closer to ISIS Than to U.S.
Steven Sotloff with ISIS captor. Photo: screengrab. While the United States tries to build a coalition of Arab allies to join the fight against the terrorist group ISIS, now known as the Islamic State, one group that stands to benefit directly is coming out against Western intervention and expressin ...
Australians foil plans in Muslim migrant community to behead Australian
Daniel Greenfield had the story yesterday, here, and thanks to reader Ed for sending it to us. Photo from a demonstration in Sydney in 2012. http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/children-with-beheading-signs-an-outrage-says-scipione-20120916-2602v.html Here is Greenfield at Frontpage magazine (with lots of pho ...
We will defeat all your ground troops, Islamic State warns US
The Islamic State (IS) terrorist group has issued a new "warning" to the US, threatening that any ground troops deployed by Washington in Iraq to combat the jihadis would be defeated on the battlefield. The post We will defeat all your ground troops, Islamic State warns US appeared first on Firstpos ...
Sunburn for 9/18 – A morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics
A morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. Today’s Rise and Shine Fact-iversary is brought to you by Sachs Media Group, the firm best known for smart, strong and strategic counsel across the diverse and ever-changing media landscape: Florida and the nation owe much to the U.S. Air Force, whic ...
Ben Barry: Degrading ISIS – a military assessment of President Obama’s strategy
Date: 11 September 2014 By Ben Barry, Senior Fellow for Land Warfare Since President Obama’s 19 June statement that ‘we will be prepared to take targeted and precise military action, if and when we determine that the situation on the ground requires it’, the advance of ISIS columns in Iraq has been ...
LIVE AT FIVE: 09.18.14
– compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Obama Insists Ground Forces Won’t Join ISIS Fight; Pentagon Less Sure Odierno, former SecDef Gates say not putting boots on the ground won’t work House approves arms for Syrian rebels Iraq PM rules out US ground troops Obama’s approval hits all-time low in ISIS cr ...
ISIS Planned Beheading of Australian… in Australia
By Daniel Greenfield Islamic terror doesn’t stay in Iraq. It doesn’t stay in Afghanistan. It follows the trail of Muslim migrants and settlers. Police say a large-scale anti-terrorism raid in Sydney this morning has foiled a plot to “commit violent acts” in Australia, including a plan to behead a me ...
