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Obama Faces Painful Choice in Syria as Peace Talks Falter

Obama Faces Painful Choice in Syria as Peace Talks Falter

March 24, 2016 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

Following the ceasefire in Syria negotiated a month ago by Washington and Moscow, Secretary of State John Kerry must now work out a long-term settlement in Syria. Any agreement involves not only the Assad regime and the Russians — a…

One Year Later, Europe’s Migrant Crisis Could Sink the EU

One Year Later, Europe’s Migrant Crisis Could Sink the EU

January 25, 2016 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

It’s now nearly a year since waves of migrants from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia began pounding European shores. Apart from the appalling human tragedies unfolding daily, it looks as if the greatest casualty of all may…

Putin’s Military Strikes in Syria Are a 'Mine Is Bigger Than Yours' Show

Putin’s Military Strikes in Syria Are a ‘Mine Is Bigger Than Yours’ Show

December 14, 2015 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

MOSCOW—You’d think that things are shaping up well for those trying to find an enduring settlement of the gruesome Syria crisis and get down to the business of destroying the Islamic State. That’s not how it looks from here. What…

Obama’s Job Now: Fight ISIS All-In as Turkey Plays Both Sides

Obama’s Job Now: Fight ISIS All-In as Turkey Plays Both Sides

November 30, 2015 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

Turkey’s stunningly rash decision last week to down a Russian Su-24 fighter jet flying an anti-terrorist mission near the Turkish-Syrian border alters the calculus in the Syria crisis at least as much as the ISIS ’s November 13 attacks in…

SYRIA.

SYRIA.

November 27, 2015 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Salon did not publish the following column. It was filed November 27th, the day after Thanksgiving and three days after Turkish pilots shot a Russian jet out of the sky near the border between Syria and Turkey—by what evidence has…

Our monumental Turkey blunder: Who put the American exceptionalists back in charge?

Our monumental Turkey blunder: Who put the American exceptionalists back in charge?

July 28, 2015 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Take a hard, careful look at what the hawks in the Obama administration—and it is crawling with them—have just done by bringing Turkey into the fight against the Islamic State. Given the blur the campaign against ISIS has become, with…

Obama Paid a High Price to Get Turkey to Fight ISIS

Obama Paid a High Price to Get Turkey to Fight ISIS

July 27, 2015 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

The war against the Islamic State just widened to include Turkey as a combatant. The Obama administration has long tried to persuade the Islamic government of RecipTayip Erdoğan to get into the fray, but the vital question still needs to be…

They still hate us: No one wants to be America, anymore

They still hate us: No one wants to be America, anymore

July 18, 2013 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Forget the standard lunacy that emerging nations “hate our freedoms.” They just don’t want to be Westernized It is common enough, and true, to say that what happens in Egypt as it stumbles through its political dawn or dusk —…

Turkey Could Be the Middle East’s Powder Keg

Turkey Could Be the Middle East’s Powder Keg

June 10, 2013 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

Maybe it had to come to this, given that Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s bullheaded, probably corrupt prime minister, heads an Islamist government in a nation far down the road to secularism. Erdoğan has lately limited the sale of alcohol and put…

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