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Orlando Was An Act of Queer-Antagonism & Hate. Candidates Calling It Radical Islam Is Political Expediency | Blog#42
Orlando Was An Act of Queer-Antagonism & Hate. Calling it Radical Islamism Is Crass Political Expediency Continue reading Orlando Was An Act of Queer-Antagonism & Hate. Candidates Calling It Radical Islam Is Political Expediency | Blog#42
Some Notes on Michael Hiltzik’s Piece on Saudi Arabia | #911 on Blog#42
The L.A. Times’ Michael Hiltzik writes a piece on Saudi Arabia’s threat to Continue reading Some Notes on Michael Hiltzik’s Piece on Saudi Arabia | #911 on Blog#42
Like Bread & Butter, Foreign Policy & Economics Go Together |#BernieSanders on Blog#42
In a reply to one of my comments in the New York Times, a reader writes: Continue reading Like Bread & Butter, Foreign Policy & Economics Go Together |#BernieSanders on Blog#42
#BernieSanders On #Israel, Palestine, Middle East Policy & ISIS | CNN Final Five on Blog#42
Bernie Sanders provides a stark contrast to Hillary Clinton on Israel, Continue reading #BernieSanders On #Israel, Palestine, Middle East Policy & ISIS | CNN Final Five on Blog#42
Inequality and the end of #ISIS
There is a very strong case for calling ISIS a terrorist organization. However, unlike Al Qaeda, the people who founded ISIS built it on a foundation that is rooted on every last tenet of Islam. In fact, if we can accuse ISIS of anything, it is of being too punctilious in applying Islamic canon. In this sense, ISIS is no different than the extreme of any religion. While Christianity ended its crusades a few hundred years ago, it isn’t implausible for Islam to now wage its own version. It is, after all, the youngest of the major religions. Continue reading Inequality and the end of #ISIS
Richard Engel: Obama’s ISIS, Al Qaeda Comparison ‘Wildly Off-Base,’
President Barack Obama outlined his strategy to take down the Islamic State in an address to the nation on Wednesday, comparing his plan to employ airstrikes to take down terrorists while supporting partners on the ground to past efforts to take out terrorists in Yemen and Somalia.
Continue reading Richard Engel: Obama’s ISIS, Al Qaeda Comparison ‘Wildly Off-Base,’
Hillary Clinton Praises a Guy With Lots of Blood on His Hands | Mother Jones
In lauding Henry Kissinger, the possible Democratic presidential nominee goes far beyond her usual hawkish rhetoric.
| Fri Sep. 5, 2014
Continue reading Hillary Clinton Praises a Guy With Lots of Blood on His Hands | Mother Jones
Iraq’s unique place in the Sunni-Shia divide | Pew Research Center
BY MICHAEL LIPKA
The Sunni-Shia divide: Where they live, what they believe and how they view each other
Continue reading Iraq’s unique place in the Sunni-Shia divide | Pew Research Center
Hillary Clinton: ‘Failure’ to Help Syrian Rebels Led to the Rise of ISIS | The Atlantic
The former secretary of state, and probable candidate for president, outlines her foreign-policy doctrine. She says this about President Obama’s: “Great nations need organizing principles, and ‘Don’t do stupid stuff’ is not an organizing principle.”
President Obama has long ridiculed the idea that the U.S., early in the Syrian civil war, could have shaped the forces fighting the Assad regime, thereby stopping al Qaeda-inspired groups—like the one rampaging across Syria and Iraq today—from seizing control of the rebellion. In an interview in February, the president told me that “when you have a professional army … fighting against a farmer, a carpenter, an engineer who started out as protesters and suddenly now see themselves in the midst of a civil conflict—the notion that we could have, in a clean way that didn’t commit U.S. military forces, changed the equation on the ground there was never true.”