Tag: ISIS

It’s been exactly one week since I called out President Obama for putting troops in harm’s way in Syria. And already his main minion in the Department of Defense, Secretary Ash Carter, is suggesting that the US is ready to put more troops in Syria: Just days after the White…

After years of promising that there would be no American boots on the ground in Syria, President Obama announced that a limited number of special forces troops would be sent to Syria to assist in the fight against the Islamic State. The intent is to send up to 50 advisors…

It’s time that Secretary of State John Kerry met with Russia and put this out on the line. Direct your forces to destroy the Islamic State in Syria and we’ll hold off on attacking Assad’s regime. When IS is done we can/will negotiate on the future of Syria and Assad….

In his ‘foreign policy’ speech at The Citadel today, Governor Walker suggested that we ‘…roll back the theocrats in Tehran”. For someone who is avidly seeking support of evangelical Christians who would like nothing better than to establish their own little theocracy here in the United States…he doesn’t quite grasp…

Because of the bull headedness of the President George W Bush administration, the Iraqi Army of the Saddam Hussein era was disbanded after the US invasion of Iraq. Water over the dam except for it’s recurring costs to the Iraqi and American people… So we reconstituted the Iraqi Army and…

First off, let me say that I wouldn’t give this award out to just anyone, or without due consideration. Over the years here at Blogging Blue I’ve been taken to task by readers, other contributors and commenters alike for my occasionally crude and insulting style of prose, like the time…

This op ed piece originally appeared in Wednesday’s New York Times and was reprinted this morning in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. I am going to copy it in its entirety here because I think it bears repeating. I hope the NYTimes will understand (the link to their original is above):…

President Obama has talked about his strategy for fighting ISIS in Syria and Iraq and of course approached Congress for authorization but more importantly funding. So the House is taking up the topic and considering their vote and they want to get out of town to complete campaigning in their…

In their article “Iraq’s implosion could redraw Middle East boundaries“, Reuters goes into a brief explanation of why the insurgents are proving so effective against the million man American trained Iraqi Army. Seems it’s because they are having few problems recruiting disaffected soldiers and officers from Saddam Hussein’s army. “In…