Obama’s shameful Syria policy
From the discarding of red lines to an unwillingness to meaningfully arm or train the Syrian rebels to looking the other way as a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions unfolds across the Middle East, Syria is a tragic exemplar of U.S. President Barack Obama’s out to lunch foreign policy
- 8 September 2015
Twilight zone between international law and morality
In the case of Iran -- where the country has consistently lied -- the question of infringing sovereignty versus ignoring basic morality can't be divorced from stated political aims of the regime as proclaimed by President Ahmedinejad when in office: the destruction of a member state of the UN, Israel. The lesson applies widely; the dilemma is real
- 21 December 2013
Ignoring the biggest massacre of Syrian Christians so far
Our rationalism and our humanity -- products of Christian civilisation -- are discarded as we ignore the horror of the brutal persecution of Christians in Syria and beyond
- 22 November 2013
What does Obama's Syrian mess spell for Israel?
Just as Obama poured forth with endless and empty threats against Damascus, so he is likely to do the same against Tehran
- 18 September 2013
Obama has created the mother of all messes for himself and the rest of us over Syria
The truly dismal, tentative way President Obama has approached this problem after he created it with his 'red line' language has been a classic historic case-study in How Not To Do Diplomacy
- 9 September 2013
Obama-gate and World War III
Is this how World War III starts on Obama's watch?
- 20 May 2013
Iran recruits online for militants to fight Israel
Will the West install a political framework which secures peace and development in Syria, or will its people continue to suffer, much to the benefit of Iran's paranoid leadership?
- 15 May 2013
Of Syria, Israel, and the United States
A world in which the United States does not lead – and lead proudly from the front, not meekly “from behind” – will be a world of more chaos and danger, and less peace and security
- 7 May 2013
The case against intervention in Syria
In the second of our two-part series, Lee Jenkins puts forward the case against intervention in Syria. Let the authors know which side you agree with in the comments sections below the respective arguments
- 21 February 2013
Hezbollah's time is up
In addition to the European Union proscribing Hezbollah, NATO must also enforce a buffer zone between Lebanon and Israel, writes Wahied Wahdat-Hagh
- 21 January 2013
Syria’s ‘incompetence’ may be the tipping point
The view of Syria from the Golan Heights makes for a bleak picture
- 14 November 2012
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