The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
Watched Andrea Mitchell interview Bernie Sanders and was very surprised that Mitchell, who this column thought was one of our best commentators, managed to ask all the wrong questions. Bernie was trying to illustrate many of the problems that plague our
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
The Republican candidates are having a field day attacking Barak Obama over the state of the Middle East. This is fairly harmless because anyone who can think for themselves and is minimally informed about what the hell is going on over there
Lindsay Graham can be one of the funniest men in politics, but last night at the debates he came up with some of the smartest stuff I have ever heard from a politician. He may have been on the undercard but
ISIS claims that its caliphate is a paradise. All these refugees leaving puts the lie to this. That’s why ISIS loves all the dumb governors in the US that don’t want refugees from Syria. So yes, our Republican refusal to accept refugees
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
The Republican Party’s leading candidate for President of the United States is currently an admitted briber, a birther, a bully and a bigot who espouses the policies of Adolph Hitler while preaching patriotism, even as he acts out a scenario of yellow
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