<i>The United Sates has waged war on Iraq under four presidents since 1991. The result of this strategy has always been nothing but chaos.</i>
The many explanations for going to war in Iraq were burdened with ambivalence. In the end, President Obama clearly took the side of getting involved in that civil war, [Read more]
The U.S. may find itself in a scenario in which it loses if it makes more frequent and systematic use of its military power, and also loses if it chooses the route of diplomacy or economic sanctions.
<i>Payment of ransom for persons kidnapped by jihadis poses a tough quandary to governments.</i>
The demand of 100 million euros in ransom for the life of James Foley adds more foulness, if possible, to the murder of the American journalist perpetrated by the Islamic State (IS). A week before publicizing a video [Read more]
On Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012, James Foley, an American war correspondence journalist, was kidnapped in Syria while he was covering the combat between rebels that were confronting Bashar al-Assad’s government troops. His existence culminated with an abominable execution, perpetrated by a jihadi militant, which is how [Read more]
<i>The atrocious assassination of a journalist reveals the reign of terror imposed by the Islamic State.</i>
Following the flood of images and videos posted on the Internet that show the atrocities carried out in Syria and Iraq by radical Islamists, it is hard to believe that one additional video could cause such [Read more]
It is now clear that the West’s sickening duplicity has become a kind of political schizophrenia, as they harp incessantly on some important issues while blithely ignoring others.
On Aug. 19, the Islamic State posted a video on social media showing the beheading of American journalist James Foley in a chilling spectacle that has sparked international outrage. It was the first time that the Islamic State had made public the killing of an American citizen, much less a journalist, and is an extreme [Read more]
<i>Washington’s assistance to the Iraqi government is exclusionary.</i>
With the consent of, and quite often with direct support from, Washington and its Western and regional partners, international terrorism is spreading across the globe, posing an increasing threat for the humankind. Along with the terrorist [Read more]
