From the Italian news agency, ANSA, the following very simple piece of news about what happened yesterday:

A chlorine-gas attack by Islamic State (ISIS) killed some 300 Iraqi soldiers at Saqlawiya, north of Falluja, Iraqi MPs from the area said Monday.If they killed around 300 soldiers, then this was either an ambush in barracks, or a fairly ( Read more... )

It can be safely said that the First Terrorist War was concluded a few years ago (exactly when is a matter for debate), and that it was a draw.  We took out Osama Bin Laden, Mullah Omar's Afghani regime, and both Saddam Hussein and his regime Iraq, but we have not yet toppled the Ayatollah of Iran.  We withdrew too quickly, leaving a power vacuum ( Read more... )

We are now going back to war in the Mideast.  President Obama has hedged his war message with all sorts of nonsensical promises and all-too-likely to be true caveats which will probably make this war an abortive one.  The one piece of good news to keep in mind is that every Muslim Terrorist we kill will stay dead -- they won't spring back to life ( Read more... )

Given that Israel gave back the Gaza for peace, and that Israel has manifestly not only not had peace, but that the Gaza is now being used as a platform to launch unprovoked missile attacks against Israel, there is clearly neither any international-legal nor moral reason remaining for Israel not to take back the Gaza and drive out all the ( Read more... )

As many may now be aware, a radical Islamofascist organization, ISIS, which had been fighting in the Syrian Civil War, has now invaded Iraq.  With amazing speed, they have vanquished one Iraqi military formation after another, and are wreaking dreadful atrocities on the helpless civilian population.  Mosul and Tikrit have fallen.  Advancing ISIS ( Read more... )

By now, many of you know that President Barack Hussein Obama, perhaps the stupidest or most treacherous man to ever occupy the office of President of the United States of America, has traded five top-ranking Taliban members taken prisoner years ago for the return of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl -- a man who was almost certainly either a deserter or ( Read more... )

Will there be another major war in our lifetime?  Will the missiles fly, and the mushroom clouds rise as colossal cenotaphs over the graves of entire cities?  Will America once again be in a position similar to that which we were in 1945 ( Read more... )

In 2008, America voted a crisply-creased pair of pants into office.  The pair of pants quickly showed itself incompetent at executing the primary duty of the American Presidency:  defense and foreign policy leadership.  In 2012, America -- deciding that it really liked this pair of pants -- re-elected it into office.  We are now living with the ( Read more... )

Watching the Sunday morning news shows today, I saw a discussion over whether or not Obama was "as bad as" Dick Cheney (the left-wing media of course imagines Cheney, rather than George W. Bush, was President from 2001-2009) on the issue of government surveillance (specifically, the role and powers of the NSA).  One exculpation offered of Obama was ( Read more... )

As we approach the end of the Strauss-Howe Generational Cycle that began with the Crisis of 1929-53, and we gradually forget or deny the lessons of history taught us by World War II as the generation which actually fought the war dies out, I've noticed that history is repeating itself with regard to appeasing (Obama) or allying with (Putin) the ( Read more... )