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Even the Pope Wants to Stop ISIS; Shouldn’t Obama?

Even the Pope Wants to Stop ISIS; Shouldn’t Obama?

September 1, 2014 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

To bomb or not to bomb? That is the debate as we watch the extremist militants of ISIS rampage through Syria and Iraq with the intent of establishing a caliphate that erases the borders between the two. Many members of…

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 Makes the Middle East Our New ‘Quagmire’

Obama Makes the Middle East Our New ‘Quagmire’

August 18, 2014 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

Quagmire” is a term commonly associated with Vietnam, but we need to haul it out of storage. There is no other way to describe the mess the Obama administration has led us into in the Middle East. President Obama and…

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