Russian Peace Plan: The Fallout Begins

September 11, 2013 15:56 by Pesach Benson President Obama took his case for Syrian intervention to the public in a national address (video/transcript). See also the Wall St. Journal, which rounded up the highlights of the president’s six network interviews. Fallout from the Russian initiative: According to Israeli media reports, when Moscow told Bashar Assad […]

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Assad Celebrates Birthday as Rebel Terrorists Rue ‘Dirty’ Chemical Deal

Bashar al Assad marked his 48th birthday Wednesday, gifted with the momentum gathering behind a Russian-brokered deal that could prevent a U.S.-led strike on his regime. Despite the fact that over 100,000 Syrians have been killed in the country’s civil war, with two million having fled and a further four million citizens displaced inside the country, […]

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Obama on Syria vs. Obama on Iraq

Sen. Barack Obama snatched the 2008 democratic nomination from Sen. Hillary Clinton for many reasons, none more important than Obama’s opposition to the Iraq War. All of Obama’s major opponents — Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., then-Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C. and then-Sen. Clinton, D-N.Y. — had voted for authorization for war. […]

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Checkmate: Russia and Syria Make Peaceful Weapons Deal

The Obama administration unable to diplomatically come to a peaceful resolution and trying to rush to at attack, Russia’s Vladimir Putin was working a peaceful resolution to the conflict. Syria said Tuesday it has accepted Russia’s proposal to place its chemical weapons under international control for subsequent dismantling. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said Tuesday […]

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Forget Syria, Target Iran

by Daniel Pipes The Washington Times September 9, 2013 Here’s advice to the members of the United States Congress as they are asked to endorse an American-led attack on the government of Syria: Start your consideration by establishing priorities, clarifying what matters most to the country. The Obama administration rightly points to two urgent matters: […]

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Where Was John Kerry on Syria for the Past Six Months?

Alexandra Mudrats/ZUMA Press/Newscom Secretary of State John Kerry has emerged—perhaps erupted is a better word—as the Obama Administration’s strongest advocate for punitive air strikes against the Assad regime. With his impassioned speech to a global audience at the State Department last Friday, Kerry pleaded for humanitarian intervention in Syria. (That, of course, was before President […]

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What Do You Want to Know About Syria?

President Obama said last year that the use of chemical weapons in Syria was a “red line.” It wasn’t one that he rushed to enforce, but that’s what he called it. Yesterday, President Obama made headlines by saying that the red line wasn’t really his, but the whole world’s, and that “Congress’s credibility is on […]

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