Obama eyes air strikes in Syria, fixing Iraqi army
The President will style the new US operation as an extension of long-running counter-terrorism strategies in Yemen and Somalia, where air power and occasional special forces missions have targeted Islamic radical groups. He also made a clear distinction ...
Obama to Liken ISIS Fight to Campaigns in Yemen and Somalia
WASHINGTON — President Obama will tell the nation on Wednesday night that America is prepared to wage a sustained air campaign against Islamic militants “wherever they exist,” much the same way the administration has for years targeted terrorists in ...
Admin Lobbying to Pass Training of Syrian Rebels from CIA to DoD
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) plans to give his response to President Obama’s full ISIS plan at lunchtime tomorrow on the floor of the Senate. More than two hours before Obama was scheduled to speak tonight, though, Graham said he would back authorizing under Title 10 the equipping and training of Sy ...
It's Going to Take More Than Airstrikes to Destroy #ISIS
From Chris Woods, at Foreign Policy, " Can Airstrikes Stop the Islamic State?": It will likely take more than just an air campaign to decimate the Islamic State. Beyond a few hundred military advisers in Iraq, however, American boots on the ground aren't an option the White House is seriously consid ...
The Christmas Tree
Several weeks ago, after Glenn Greenwald had spent a river of adjective in a hilariously ham-handed attempt to bend a now-nearly-forgotten Twitter kerfuffle about the posting of the James Foley video into a Very Important Post About The Only Subject Glenn Greenwald Ever Talks About, I wrote that... ...
Here Are The First Details Of Obama's Big New ISIS Strategy
President Barack Obama will deliver an address to the nation at 9 p.m. ET Wednesday night, outlining a strategy to "degrade and destroy" the extremist group calling itself the Islamic State (also ISIS or ISIL). The White House just released the first bit of excerpts of Obama's speech: "So tonight, w ...
Why I Am Devoting My Life to Israel
American olim at Ben-Gurion airport. Photo: Sasson Tiram, courtesy of Nefesh B’Nefesh. It’s June 2009. I am in Israel on a CAMERA Student Leadership trip, and I’m on the phone with my mother. “Mom, I want to join the IDF.” I was almost 19 years old at the time. “No.” “Okay.” Now, fast-forward to Sep ...
Resist the Rush to War
Ah, don't you feel it in the air? Americans of all political stripes coming together, the blues and the reds, Democrats and Republicans, liberal-oriented MSNBC and conservative cheerleader FOX News, all singing in the same chorus, calling for military action against the Sunni Islamic political-milit ...
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> dissolvinggg: b-luesheep: ivvlo: grrl-riott: fernjpg: wearethefourthwave: "THIS PICTURE WILL NOT CHANGE THE WORLD, BUT I STILL NEED FEMINISM AND I’M GOING TO REALLY, REALLY TELL YOU WHY": -Because I got called a whore for wearing a short plaid skirt when I was 10 -and because when Nujood Ali ...
Estados Unidos: Bombas y hundimiento emocional generalizado
"La gran compasión es muy dolorosa si no se acompaña de la comprensión del vacío. Y la comprensión del vacío es puro cinismo si no se acompaña de la gran compasión." Franco Berardi Esta noche el Presidente Obama le hablará al pueblo estadounidense para hacer público lo que ya todos sabemos: Que habr ...
Yemen army and Houthis trade gunfire in Sanaa
Renewed gunfight breaks out involving rebels who have been encamped in capital for weeks, urging government to quit. AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)
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> silverstar415850: vladimirnootin: aboutwhitewomen: vladimirnootin: sixpenceee: 10 year old Yemeni girl smiling after she was granted a divorce from her husband- a 30 year old man Here’s what I found after looking into it. Nujood Ali was nine when her parents arranged a marriage to Faez Ali Th ...
