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The president – of a country that systematically and continuously disrespects the right of nations to chart their own path, and a country that subordinates and punishes anyone who won’t submit to the American world view – is talking nonsense, and he believes that everyone will swallow it.

Should Obama be able to use the Iraq crisis to forge a lasting alliance with Iran, it would be a veritable diplomatic stroke of genius. Yet one should not be naive: The conflict against ISIS may unite both countries in the short term. Then, however, their visions for the region's future diverge.

Obama's indecision has fostered the advance of the Islamists, thinks Islam scholar Guido Steinberg. America will intervene in the not-too-distant future.

The selected victims haven't received that which marks a state governed by law: a trial, a defense attorney and a sentence. Instead, it's the CIA that establishes a death list, which is then approved by President Obama. With that the president becomes nearly all-powerful as a court of law, jury and executioner.