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
- 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?
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 19 February 2013
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