New post up at Liberty Unyielding. Enjoy!
Now Egypt joins the air fight against Islamic State – in Libya
Everything old is new again.
Tag: Italy
Imams inciting anti-Semitism: Free speech at the crossroads
Baby and bath water.
Memorial Day and the Battle of Monte Cassino in 1944
Never forget.
Chinese warship arrives off Syria
Your father’s international order, nowhere in sight.
How many warships does it take to remove chemical weapons from Syria? One more this week than it took last week, apparently. If you’re a big, important country with a big, important navy, you want to be involved in the good-citizenship exercise in Syria.
A 31 December deadline for getting some of the chemical stockpile to waiting ships in Latakia was missed, as readers will remember. But it looks like Continue reading “Chinese warship arrives off Syria”
Britain taking lead on Syria?
Backing into a maelstrom?
One of these days, the mainstream media will catch up with reality and start reporting things as they are. In the Libya intervention in 2011, the United States “led from behind” – France and Britain being the leaders out front – as a non-hostile kinetic military action sort of developed. Reporters and pundits might have learned from that event that the capitals to watch are those of Europe. They didn’t; but such appears to be the case again.
Britain, France
One watches Obama in vain. But according to foreign media, if one is watching David Cameron, one is seeing things actually happen. Continue reading “Britain taking lead on Syria?”
The Optimistic Conservative 