Saddam, the Good Old Days
Alan Caruba
I know it’s a terrible thing to say, but sometimes I miss Saddam Hussein.
Yes, he was a cruel despot. Between September 1980 and July 1988 he pursued an eight-year war against Iran that killed an estimated combined million troops [...]
The Difference Between the Real World and Obama’s
By Alan Caruba
I keep wondering what it must have been like to be a young student at West Point listening to their Commander in Chief’s platitudes and ignorance wash over them. West Point is where our nation’s future leaders in war receive [...]
The United Nations Cesspool
By Alan Caruba.
I don’t write much about the United Nations because it is everything that it is not supposed to be. It’s supposed to be devoted to human rights and other noble and global aspirations. Instead it is a [...]
The Middle East’s Peace of the Grave
By Alan Caruba.
After both great wars of the last century nations got together to create organizations that would ensure that large conflicts would not occur again.
After World War I, it was the League of Nations. When Woodrow Wilson (who was [...]
Why Syria?
By Alan Caruba.
Conservatives are asking themselves why liberals, so opposed to Bush’s war against Iraq and its dictator, Saddam Hussein, are so hell bent to get into a war in Syria and its dictator, Bashar al-Assad?
The President’s assertion [...]
The Incredible Shrinking President
By Alan Caruba.
In 1981 Lily Tomlin starred in a film, “The Incredible Shrinking Woman”, and it seems to me that Barack Obama is starring in the 2013 sequel, “The Incredible Shrinking President.”
A half hour late to his Rose Garden [...]
Red lines crossed – Send in the troops, now!
By Oliver Krumme.
It was long overdue, the red line have been crossed several times now it has been confirmed. According to very recent reports by UN Inspectors, the Assad regime has used chemical weapons against its own [...]
Could Syria Spark WWIII?
By Alan Caruba.
Who recalls that one of the reasons Americans approved the invasions of Iraq was the fact that Saddam Hussein had used poison gas to kill Kurds?
Now we are told that Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s strongman, has used poison gas to [...]
The Ignored War – The need for collective security enforcement
By Oliver Krumme.
War in the immediate neighbourhood
A violent conflict with catastrophic humanitarian consequences in going on in the immediate vicinity of NATO and the western security alliance is standing aside and watching. While Syrian [...]