Jan
02
2010
Drip, Drip, Drip. As more information is known, the depth of the Obama Administration’s failures continue to deepen and shock. Not only did: the NSA pick up chatter in August about al Qaeda planning attacks on the US with a “Nigerian” Â – possibly going by the name Umar Farouk, the NSA pick up Nigerian Umar […]
Jan
27
2009
Obama took and interesting, if impotent, move today by making his first press interview directed towards the Muslim World: President Obama expressed optimism yesterday about the prospect of peace between Israel and the Palestinians, but he said a peace accord will take time and require new thinking about the problems of the Middle East as a whole. […]
Oct
06
2008
The pivot point in Iraq was when the Sunni Arabs of Iraq decided al-Qaeda was a brutish and violent ally that was actually more their enemy than the US or the democratically elected Iraqi government (run by Shiites and Kurds, primarily). Things became so bad with al-Qaeda by their side they decided to take up […]