Unbelievably, former Vice President Dick Cheney, after being wrong on every foreign policy issue for more than a decade, has again crawled out of his Wyoming cave and begun outrageously sniping at Barack Obama’s performance in foreign policy. Although I am certainly no fan of Obama’s overall performance as president (in the second edition of …
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Barack Obama has asked Congress for $500 million to train and arm rebels of the Free Syrian Army who seek to overthrow the government. Before Congress takes up his proposal, both houses should demand that Obama explain exactly where he gets the constitutional authority to plunge us into what the president himself calls “somebody else’s …
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With only a few weeks remaining before the Jul. 20 deadline, the Barack Obama administration issued a warning to Iran that it must accept deep cuts in the number of its centrifuges in order to demonstrate that its nuclear program is only for peaceful purposes. U.S. officials have argued that such cuts are necessary to …
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At least 47 people were killed and 82 more were killed to close out the month of June, the deadliest in several years.
Did Russia’s annexation of Crimea on March violate the 1994 Budapest agreement among Ukraine, Russia, Great Britain and the U.S.? Specifically, in Paragraph One, Ukraine agreed to remove all nuclear weapons from its territory in return for a commitment by Russia, Britain and the US“to respect the independence and sovereignty and existing borders of Ukraine?” …
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The recently announced sale of fighter-bombers to Iraq by Russia and Belarus marks a turning point in the country’s escalating conflict. On a structural level, the purchase by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki’s regime reveals the desperation of the Iraqi military, a force perceived by many analysts as being a largely "checkpoint army" that also …
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The other day Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) was railing against "unilateral disarmament" and declaring "I haven’t heard that kind of talk since the days of George McGovern," or words to that effect. Was he talking about our nuclear policy, or perhaps the revived war in Iraq? Nope. He was on the John Stossel show defending …
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At least 45 people were killed and 127 more were wounded. Shi’ite “volunteers” sustained the greatest loses in several northern towns. The Kurds referred to them as being part of the old Badr Brigade. It is unclear if they actually were part of the Badr Organization or just Shi’ite volunteers from the region.
Government forces could be nearing their goal of liberating Tikrit, which would be a great psychological win, if true. At least 197 were killed and 37 more were wounded across Iraq.
At least 77 people were killed and 23 more were wounded. Some of these victims were killed during a massacre last week. Meanwhile, Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani asked lawmakers to hurry building the new government in order to help reduce the chaos across the country. Also, new eye witnesses emerged in the slaughter of dozens of prisoners on Monday.
