The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
Fareed Zakaria asks the great ISIS question: Why do they hate us? The answer is very simple. They don’t, at least not just us. Islamic terrorists have been killing people all over the world for the last two centuries. In fact, most
A couple of days back, Donald Trump, not my favorite president-elect, took a congratulatory call from the President of Taiwan. Most people would say, what’s the big deal but it seems to have ruffled a hell of a lot of feathers both
One looks around at the attacks against our current foreign policy and one listens to all the complaints about how it is being conducted and one wonders; does anyone who writes in the media or schemes in Washington ever read any
The Iran nuclear deal is set to be signed this week. It’s a deal that has been incorrectly attacked by the GOP for its entire gestating period. The International Nuclear Committee has agreed that all the terms of the agreement have
Finally a studied intelligent look at what is going on in the Middle East and what our President can do about it. Retired Four Star General Wesley Clark spoke to this situation over the weekend and his clear facts and lack
After watching the people of Paris reclaim their city, followed by our cowardly reaction to the terrorists in San Bernardino, it occurred to me that the reaction in Paris is exactly what should be happening here. Over there, despite the attacks, they
Military and intelligence sources both here and abroad seem to agree on one very significant fact in the war on ISIS. We could, undoubtedly take back all the ISIS held territory in Iraq and Syria with about 40,000 troops plus air
The Right wing press and some of the Left is up in arms about Obama’s reaction and speech after the Paris attacks, The attacks are based on his reluctance to put American troops on the ground to fight yet another war that
So the terrorists invaded Paris and others have now invaded Mali and have given the intellectually bankrupt GOP an excuse to start shouting about Obama’s strategy or lack thereof in the fight against ISIS. It also gave the cowardly Republican governors, mainly
The Democrats debated Friday night and the first topic was our place in the Middle East. In fact we really have no place in the Middle East mainly because we are looking to lead a coalition of countries that want no