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It’s time to bomb ISIS: Yes, America helped sow these seeds, but this is the rare group that should be called “terrorists”

It’s time to bomb ISIS: Yes, America helped sow these seeds, but this is the rare group that should be called “terrorists”

August 28, 2014 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Disastrous, ham-fisted foreign policy by both Obama and Bush has forced us to select from horrible options How quickly all Washington’s chickens flock back to the roost these days. You can say this about any number of policy disasters, notably…

Obama Needs Putin to Salvage His Failed Syrian Strategy

Obama Needs Putin to Salvage His Failed Syrian Strategy

March 24, 2014 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

Now that Russia’s annexation of Crimea is an accomplished fact, the Ukraine conversation, is all about consequences. And there will be a lot of them, intended or otherwise. In coming weeks how many fall to Moscow and how many to…

American empire is over: Somebody tell John Kerry!

American empire is over: Somebody tell John Kerry!

December 12, 2013 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

New York Times embarrassingly praises Biden and Kerry’s sorrowful efforts, all unaware U.S. exceptionalism is dead We have made ourselves a navel-gazing folk, a little like Americans of the 19th century — until we lunged into the world by bravely…

Syrian Crisis Exposes Obama’s Failed Mideast Policy

Syrian Crisis Exposes Obama’s Failed Mideast Policy

August 26, 2013 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

The U.S. response to the escalating Syria crisis requires more thought than emotion, and it has to reach across the board—to Egypt, to Iran, to the friendly, repressive Saudis and the friendly, repressive emirates, to the antagonizing Russians. In a word,…

Obama Gives Syrian Rebels Sling Shots to Slay the Dragon

Obama Gives Syrian Rebels Sling Shots to Slay the Dragon

June 17, 2013 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

Even as the White House asserts that Syrian President Bashar al–Assad has used chemical weapons against rebel insurgents, there are skeptics. The Russians, who support Assad, instantly questioned Washington’s evidence. So, now, do more objective experts who wonder why there…

Obama’s Red Line in Syria Was Drawn in Pencil

Obama’s Red Line in Syria Was Drawn in Pencil

May 13, 2013 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

Suddenly, the Syria crisis has grown more complicated for the US—and notably for the Obama administration. After many months of staying scrupulously clear of a conflict that has now claimed 80,000 Syrian lives, it looks as though the White House…

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