Tagged with "Iraq"

IS is a European problem

If there is to be effective resistance to IS, it is mainland European countries -- from where most of the "Western" jihadis originate -- that must step up to the plate, and NATO is the mechanism
by Robin Mitchinson - 1 September 2014
Islamism's existential threat, and Western chaos

With events in Iraq in mind, while it may be dawning on some of our leaders that we face an existential threat from Islamism one really wonders what it will take for them to get their act together. Do we have to wait for a bomb in the Channel Tunnel?
by Robin Mitchinson - 17 August 2014
Islamist threat in Iraq will only grow if we are weak

However weary of Iraq we may be, Britain has a duty to intervene to prevent the genocide of Christians and the other victims of an Islamist threat that won't go away just because we can't be bothered to get serious
by Clare George-Hilley - 15 August 2014
Obama’s self-absorbed humanitarianism over Iraq

Obama the supreme egotist looks grudging and shifty over his self-absorbed decision to move on Iraq. It's the story of his presidency
by Taylor Dibbert - 13 August 2014
America’s retrencher in chief

It's time for the same Obama who spoke so eloquently of a post-partisan era, to shelve the politics and formulate a proper response to the ongoing debacle in Iraq
by Taylor Dibbert - 23 June 2014
A stalemate: The least bad option in Iraq

Perhaps the best option available to the U.S. in the ongoing Iraq debacle is one straight out of the Kissinger playbook: playing the role of a balancer
by Fabio Rafael Fiallo - 20 June 2014
Obama’s abysmal legacy: Eight incompetent years?

From the Veterans to Obamacare to the IRS to Benghazi and more, Mr. Obama seems intent on having words like “disaster” and “incompetence” become synonymous with all eight years of his presidency
by Taylor Dibbert - 17 June 2014
Obama pays the price for early withdrawal in Iraq

On Iraq, what is unforgivable is knowingly withdrawing from a country still struggling to defend itself from extremism and effectively leaving it vulnerable to those extremists
by Steven George-Hilley - 14 June 2014
From Iraq to Ukraine: The disaster of Obama's world

Above all else, leadership is about being there, having your hand firmly on the rudder and letting everyone know what you stand for and what you won't stand for. Sound like Barack Obama? Nope
by the commentator - 13 June 2014
Christian massacres: collateral damage of US policy

Where the U.S. works to oust secular autocrats, the quality of life for Christians and other minorities takes a major downturn. The last Christian church in Afghanistan was demolished under the nose of the U.S. in 2010
by Raymond Ibrahim - 21 January 2014
Israel will 'bear consequences' for Iraqi airspace violation

Iraq's deputy prime minister has warned that Israel would "bear the consequences" for using Iraqi airspace in any prospective raid on Iran
by The Commentator - 3 June 2013
VIDEO: Ken Livingstone makes excuses for Boston bombers

Labour's former Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, has used his Press TV pulpit to make anti-imperialist excuses on behalf of the Boston bombers
by Media Hawk - 29 April 2013
Mutilated justice is better than no justice at all

The international community has a duty to act when human beings are suffering, no matter how anti-interventionists try to obfuscate the matter
by Oscar Clarke - 29 March 2013
Why accept the socialist-driven Iraq War narrative?

George Galloway may be a master orator, but we'd do well not to allow him free rein over the Iraq War narrative
by Jonathan Bracey Gibbon - 27 February 2013
Asking the right questions on Iraq

Even with, and partly because of, a decade of hindsight, clear-headed discussion about the run-up to the Iraq war is befuddled by our inability to ask the right questions
by Robin Shepherd, Owner / Publisher - 19 February 2013