The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
There’s a great deal of speculation about how we didn’t see ISIS becoming a big time threat until they were rolling through Iraq, murdering villages full of non-Sunni Muslims and making a general nuisance of themselves. How come? We do, after
The only solution the Middle East is going to get if it really wants to consider peace, is going to have to be political and religious, not military. We can bomb the hell out of ISIS but eventually that will become
What the hell is going on with Iraq and Syria. The President says there will be no American boots on the ground despite the fact that we have well over one thousand advisers over there. You can say they are not combat
I’m really getting tired of all the numbskulls with no answers that continually attack the President for being weak or not having the answers to the problems of the Middle East. How about no one has the answers? How
The mess in the Middle East isn’t getting any better; this despite an awful lot of attention by the White House, the so called loyal opposition and media all over the world. The basic problem is that no one
The president was on the tube Wednesday night telling the American people about his plans for the Middle East, explaining how we were going to attack ISIS in Iraq, Syria and wherever else they showed their heads, but also stating firmly
Watched a commercial for Koch Industries the other day on which they bragged about being all over the nation (like a huge octopus), and how they have created over 60,000 jobs for Americans. This is the biggest privately owned company in
Though the headlines, as they always do, are following the mess in Ferguson, there is still a hell of a horror going on in Israel. I know anyone attempting to look logically at this disaster will probably regard it as an
The big problem right now, is, of course, in Iraq – again. The President is doing the right thing at this point but it still seems short sighted. His plan to supply the Kurdish people trapped on Sinidar Mountain with
The damn Sunday morning talking heads just can’t get off the warmonger drug. It seems that none of them want to realize or admit that the men who get us into a war with Iraq are not the experts they