House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) is sending a letter to President Barack Obama criticizing his level of consultation with lawmakers about potential military action against Syria and demanding a clear explanation of any mission in advance of its start, The Wall Street Journal reports. Separately, 114 House lawmakers—some 97 Republicans and 17 Democrats—have signed […]
By Robert Spencer American military intervention in Syria is likely to begin this week, and one thing we know amid the general confusion is that the objective is not to oust Bashar Assad: White House spokesman Jay Carney said Tuesday: “I want to make clear that the options that we are considering are not about regime change. […]
If Barack Obama decides to attack the Syrian regime, he has ensured – for the very first time in history – that the United States will be on the same side as al-Qa’ida. Quite an alliance! Was it not the Three Musketeers who shouted “All for one and one for all” each time they sought […]
What a mess Obama is making out of the Middle East. Syria is attacking it’s ‘rebel’ forces with chemical weapons that can probably be traced directly to Saddam Hussein’s missing stockpiles. Obama is now planning to attack Syria in retribution for using them. Those aligned with Syria will most likely launch terror attacks against US […]
As western military intervention in Syria appears increasingly likely, and following an explicit threat by a Syrian official that his country would respond to western strikes by attacking Israel, many Israelis are scurrying to replace old or missing gas masks, an official said on Tuesday. “Since the beginning of the week there has been a significant […]
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem vowed on Tuesday that his country will defend itself in case of any Western military strikes against it. “We have two options: either to surrender, or to defend ourselves with the means at our disposal. The second choice is the best: we will defend ourselves,” Muallem said in a televised […]
Obama’s war machine – it’s the biggest, the baddest, the bulliest in the history of America. And it appears ready to fire up even hotter. Are we about to go to war in Syria? It would certainly seem so. Not a declared war, but one of those international police actions apparently intended to punish a […]
Details of secret talks between Putin, Saudi prince leaked; Intel head admits to controlling Chechen jihadists in Syria. Saudi intelligence has issued a tacit threat to have terrorist attacks carried out in Russia at the Winter Olympics in February 2014, should the state continue to support the Assad regime in Syria. The threat was revealed […]
Fighting Al Qaeda by Supporting Al Qaeda in Syria: The Obama Administration is a “State Sponsor of Terrorism” Embarrassed from having no idea what to do about his empty “Red Line” threat to Syria, Commander in Chief Obama is now blustering that he will soon send cruise missiles into Syria. Obama apparently has not yet […]
In what might indicate that the British army is preparing for an attack on Syria, the Guardian reported on Monday that warplanes and military transporters have begun arriving at Britain’s Akrotiri airbase on Cyprus, less than 100 miles from the Syrian coast. Two commercial pilots who regularly fly from Larnaca told the Guardian that they […]
