Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders The confusion in the President’s thinking and strategy about the current terrorist crisis is frightening in its implications. As the tragic events in Paris confirm, surprise remains one of the most important aspects of warfare, in this instance by the Islamic terrorists of Daesh [ISIL or ISIS] against […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders The Obama Administration’s utter strategic confusion, particularly in foreign affairs, was nowhere more exhibited than in Sec. of Defense Ashton B. Carter’s recent statements at the Reagan Defense Forum. Irony was added to insult when Carter equated the Obama policies with those of President Ronald Reagan. How quickly […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama plans to press Israel to take unilateral measures to make possible a Palestinian state. “We’ve been doing a lot of work internally to try to think about, if we are in a period without negotiations, how we can still generate some direction and progress . . . […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Norman Bailey As Iran extends its influence to Israel’s northern border, the madness of the nuclear deal is becoming apparent. The two greatest physicists in history, writing centuries apart, agreed on one thing. Sir Isaac Newton wrote: “I can calculate the motion of the heavenly bodies but not the madness of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The fate of the Middle East is riding on the success of Russia’s intervention after the failure of the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), Syrian President Bashar Assad said. “The alliance between Russia, Syria, Iraq and Iran must succeed or else the whole region will be […]
Special to WorldTribune.com U.S. President Barack Obama’s new strategy to defeat Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) is to win with ideas instead of guns. During a summit with world leaders at the United Nations, Obama claimed that “military pressure” will not force ISIL to back down and that the war of ideas was […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, Global Information System / Defense & Foreign Affairs [Editor’s note: The following full-length report by Yossef Bodansky details Russia’s unambiguous response to the growing jihadist threat in Syria and the Middle East that has remarkably been aided and abetted at several junctures by Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia […]
Special to WorldTribune.com U.S. President Barack Obama bears the brunt of the blame for the current migrant crisis in Europe, according to several lawmakers as well as many refugees attempting to make it Europe. Iraqi Rzgar Abdul, currently housed in a Hungarian refugee camp, blamed the U.S. for pulling out of Iraq too soon. “Iraq’s […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Alexander Maistrovoy “The prospects are bright, but the road has twists and turns”. These are the words of Mao Zedong, but they could have belonged to Barack Obama. Unfortunately, “twists and turns” will be so numerous, that not many will manage to see the “bright prospects”. Obama believes that the agreement […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The Iran nuclear deal is “madness” and will ultimately give Teheran the means to launch a nuclear attack on the U.S. homeland, former Vice President Dick Cheney said on Sept. 8. In a speech at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., Cheney said the deal will see the “arming and funding […]