United States

Phoney indignation

Summary The Daily Star, Lebanon In fact, Washington had already taken firm action, by launching airstrikes in northern Iraq to stem military advances by ISIS that came uncomfortably close to the autonomous Kurdish region and U.S. interests there. The U.S. has acted in Syria and Iraq only when it believes […]

Isis’s undoubted skill in exploiting social media is no reason for US leaders to start talking about the apocalypse – Power without responsibility has provided al-Baghdadi and his men with their most

by Robert Fisk, The Independent We keep banging on about British citizens turning into Jihadists – that tired old public relations man Dave Cameron does this all the time, with his worn-out political correctness – and it’s almost impolite to say “Muslim British citizens”. But isn’t it time we said […]

Why defeating the Islamic State is necessary

Summary by Charles Krauthammer, The Daily Star Baghdad called President Barack Obama’s bluff and he came through. With the support of U.S. airstrikes, Iraqi and Kurdish forces have retaken the Mosul dam. In following through, Obama demonstrated three things: the effectiveness of even limited U.S. power, the vulnerability of the […]