THOSE INCREASING STORM SURGES OF RAMPANT NATIONALISM… (…are cultural backlashes against changes within existing conglomerate unity) The post WWII Franco/German entente (pragmatic if not cordiale) hammered out between President Schumann of France and Chancellor Adenauer of West Germany, laid down
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GOING IN HALF-APP… (…when full-bore is the need) We’ve said it many times before…there’s no other place on earth worth one drop of American blood, or, one American soldier’s life…least of all anywhere in the Middle East, and especially in…Iraq.
TODAY’S SEA PEOPLES… (…a replay of an ancient story…in reverse) Some three thousand years ago or so the entire Middle East was shaken up and left in chaos, much as it is today. The cause, back then, seems to have
GROWING STORM CLOUDS (for a possible nuclear war…) Prime Minister Yetanyahu’s recent address to Congress on Israel’s concerns about Iran’s nuclear ambitions, may be correct from his perspectives, but they ignore an even greater threat in the region…one which makes
THE SELF-PROCLAIMED CALIPHATE OF ISIS/ISSL (…is a practitioner of extreme barbarism and criminality) The latest barbaric murders of its Japanese and Jordanian hostages should be sufficient proof that the self-proclaimed caliphate of ISIS/ISSL is a practitioner of extreme barbarism and
MYOPIC NATIONAL AGENDAS BLOCKING EFFECTIVE STRATEGIC EFFORTS (…as the US and Turkey just tiptoe further into the fray with only band-aid support…) The ISIS/ISIL wildfire continues to rage with little or no containment, much less any real signs of it
THAT RED LINE IN THE SAND… (…means zilch on the ground…) The report of a recent chemical weapon attack in Syria on a rebel held suburb of Damascus, against non-combatant civilians, complete with vivid videos of its effects on them,
MAKING A CHOICE FOR EITHER ENDLESS WAR…OR PERMANENT PEACE (…it’s up to them…) In that grand asylum of that region we all call – The Middle East – its inmates continue to engage in useless never ending conflicts of one