Posts Tagged: Obama Syria
Obama Considering Range of Options for Stepping Up Pressure on Syria’s Assad
Los Angeles Times - RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. - President Obama is weighing a "wide range of policy tools and options" for stepping up pressure on Syrian...
Barack Obama and the Shame of Syria
It is hard to imagine that representatives of the 30 countries that assembled in Geneva actually believed that they could find a political solution to...
Why We Should Support the Syrian Rebels
In April 2013, I published an article with the slightly inaccurate title, "Support Assad." Better would have been "Support Whichever Side Is Losing in the...
Obama Fiddles While the World Burns
Nero "fiddled," so they say, while Rome burned. Today, this epigram all too accurately describes President Obama's approach to U.S. national security. For five years,...
U.S. Freezes Aid to Syrian Rebels
New York Times - The United States has suspended the delivery of nonlethal aid to the Syrian opposition in northern Syria after concluding that some...
Obama’s Refusal to Hate Evil
The greatest moral failure of our time is a refusal to hate evil. Hatred of evil implies both the right to make judgments as well...
Report: U.S. to Seek Iran’s Help With Syria
Times of Israel - Having overseen an interim deal with Iran on its nuclear program, the Obama administration now intends to try to involve Iran...
The Obama Administration is Spineless in the Middle East
JNS.org - Here, in a nutshell, are the principles driving the Obama Administration's Middle East policy. Screw the Syrians. Don't upset the Iranians....
How Assad Has Stayed in Power: Cunning and U.S. Fumbling
When Basil Assad, oldest son and heir apparent to the late President Hafez Assad, was killed in a car accident in 1994, the father turned...
America: Less of a Superpower Than Ever
This article by Shoshana Bryen was originally published by the Gatestone Institute. The traditional American posture as the guarantor of freedom and protector of allies, and...
Obama at the UN: America on the Decline
As he waited in the wings at the United Nations, President Obama was struck with this sledgehammer from Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff: Tampering... in the affairs...
Obama and Israel on a Collision Course
One might have hoped that Obama's calamitous mishandling of recent Middle East crises, climaxing with his disastrous response to the Syrian use of chemical weapons,...
Report: Obama Stopped French Strike on Syria
JNS.org - French President François Hollande canceled an airstrike against Syrian targets scheduled for Aug. 31 at the last minute following a phone call...
Why Does Obama Trust Despots?
Has anyone else noted the similarity between two recent top Middle East news headlines - the telephone call between the Iranian and American presidents and the...
