SOURCE: THE ATLANTIC BY: PETER BEINART The story of American humanitarian war, as expressed over the last quarter-century, is a tragedy. It’s the tale of well-meaning interventionists like Samantha Power and Susan Rice who—haunted by America’s failure to act in Rwanda in 1994, and emboldened by America’s partial successes in Bosnia in 1995 and Kosovo … Continued
SOURCE: LOCK PORT JOURNAL BY: NICHOLAS L. WADDY On Oct. 17, U.S.-backed Kurdish and Arab forces in Syria completed their conquest of Raqqa, the erstwhile capital city of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. As a state, ISIS is more or less finished. This represents a spectacular reversal from as recently as 2014, … Continued
SOURCE: THE ECONOMIST This should be a time for rejoicing. The jihadists of Islamic State (IS), driven out of Mosul in Iraq in July, were defeated this week in their Syrian capital, Raqqa. Little remains of the “caliphate” but a few pockets and a bankrupt ideology. Alarmingly, the scramble for spoils is bringing forth old … Continued
SOURCE: HUFFPOST BY: TRITA PARSI Make no mistake: We do not have a crisis over the Iran nuclear deal. It is working and everyone from Secretary Mattis and Tillerson to the US and Israeli intelligence services to the International Atomic Energy Agency agree: Iran is adhering to the deal. But Trump is about to take a … Continued
Watch the video here SOURCE: THE WASHINGTON POST BY: ELI ROSENBERG The United States will withdraw from UNESCO at the end of next year, the State Department said Thursday, in order to stop accumulating unpaid dues and make a stand on what it said is anti-Israel bias at the U.N.’s educational, science and cultural organization. … Continued
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