No, really: Kerry seeks Hollywood’s advice on how to fight ISIL

No, really: Kerry seeks Hollywood’s advice on how to fight ISIL

Special to WorldTribune.com By Christopher Sparks If there’s anyone who knows how to defeat a real enemy, its the people who heroically defeat fake enemies on film. At least, that seems to be the logic behind U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit to La-La Land to get Hollywood’s advice on how to beat Islamic […]

No, Time magazine, it’s not yet time to forgive as threat of WMD terror looms large

No, Time magazine, it’s not yet time to forgive as threat of WMD terror looms large

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, EastAsiaIntel.com This week’s Asia edition of Time magazine features the cover line, “What It Takes to Forgive a Killer.” Thinking the editors had had time to do a cover on the massacres in Paris, I discovered cloying, patronizing interviews with friends and relatives of the nine African-Americans shot and […]

No, Ashton Carter, there is absolutely nothing Reaganesque about Obama policies

No, Ashton Carter, there is absolutely nothing Reaganesque about Obama policies

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 […]

No, Syria’s Assad is not ‘the new Hitler’

No, Syria’s Assad is not ‘the new Hitler’

Jeffrey T. Kuhner Adolf Hitler is back. Every time the war party wants to attack another country its leader is always compared to the Nazi dictator. This time it’s the turn of Syrian strongman Bashar Assad. Secretary of State John F. Kerry and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid have said Assad is the new “Hitler.” […]