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.
Robin Koerner-. Published in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
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.