While the blissfully ignorant of the world go about celebrating the Putin-Obama deal on Syria, the militant form of Muslim Brotherhood -- similar to al Nusra in Syria, -- al Shabab has been massacring "infidels" in Kenya. The defeat of the … [Read more...] about Al Qaeda’s Offspring in Terror Uprising
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The War on Terrorism Goes On
If the Boston Marathon Massacre and the growing Syrian Civil War jihadist outrages were not self-evident, the bloody attack on innocents at the Nairobi, Kenya, mall provide new evidence that the international terrorist conspiracy continues virtually … [Read more...] about The War on Terrorism Goes On
Go Aegis: Be All You Can Be!
Extensive tests of the U.S. Navy’s Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system, designed primarily to defend our overseas troops, friends and allies, also demonstrate an inherent capability to defend the U.S. homeland from several important … [Read more...] about Go Aegis: Be All You Can Be!
Backdoor Plots: The Darknet as a Field for Terrorism
On Friday, August 2, 2013, the US State Department published a travel warning, and in an unprecedented step, closed over twenty embassies. As expected, following the American warning other Western countries such as Great Britain, France, and Germany … [Read more...] about Backdoor Plots: The Darknet as a Field for Terrorism
Is a “Tehran Moment” in Obama’s Future?
If it were not for Iran's former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Mullahs, Obama would have probably made a deal with Iran a long time ago. Now it seems that Washington's acceptance of Russia's scheme to dispose of Syria's chemical weapons is … [Read more...] about Is a “Tehran Moment” in Obama’s Future?
Obama Discovers American Exceptionalism
Among the welter of ironies concerning President Vladimir Putin's op/ed for The New York Times on the zigzaggingSyria crisis is that "Ras's" ghostwriter has--however haphazardly--touched on the fundamental issue. Given the arguments and syntax, I … [Read more...] about Obama Discovers American Exceptionalism
Meet the Next Peace Laureate
On September 12, two days before the announcement on the agreement between U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on a plan to destroy Syria's chemical weapons--an agreement that has yet to be approved by Bashar … [Read more...] about Meet the Next Peace Laureate
Northeastern Syria; The Kurdish Minority and The Oil Card
In a thought provoking essay titled "The P-Word" published in the American Thinker blog, Ben Cohen offers a précis of the history of a multi-ethnic multi-cultural Middle East. He suggests that a solution to the present Syrian cataclysm would be "to … [Read more...] about Northeastern Syria; The Kurdish Minority and The Oil Card
The Muslim Brotherhood’s Ongoing Violence in Cairo & Sinai
While the world's attention is on Obama's twists and turns on Syria, there are important developments in Egypt. It appears that the military, with help from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states, is busy successfully suppressing the Muslim … [Read more...] about The Muslim Brotherhood’s Ongoing Violence in Cairo & Sinai
Hold Your Horses!
The old cliché has it that history is written by the victors. But the victors' historians, too, are human. In an effort to write a narrative that the rest of us can follow, they pick up what we diginiks call a "thread". Until someone identifies a … [Read more...] about Hold Your Horses!