It’s demeaning enough that President Trump plans to travel all the way to Singapore just to “get to know” the genocidal dictator of North Korea, Kim Jong-un. But it seems Kim is willfully insulting Trump. For only this explains Kim making such a show of fraternizing with the genocidal dictator of Syria, Bashir al-Assad, with… Read more.
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Obama Takes Finger Off Trigger re Syria
Members of both the U.S. Congress and UK Parliament deemed debate over military strikes against Syria so important that they interrupted summer vacations to participate. I felt obliged to do the same. Here’s my question for every member of Congress and every member of the global community: What message will we send if a dictator… Read more.
Why Is killing with gas (Syria) any more inhumane than killing with guns (Egypt)?
In a rare show of unity, the United States and Russia are calling on the United Nations to investigate claims that the Syrian government used chemical weapons on Wednesday to kill over 1000 people, including women and children. All indications are that the United States is trying to enlist a coalition of nations willing to… Read more.
Why Putin, Not Obama, Is the Master of Assad’s Fate
For the sake of the Syrian people, the time has come for President Assad to step aside. One can be forgiven for thinking that, with those words, President Obama sealed Assad’s fate as surely as, with a thumb down, a Roman emperor sealed that of a gladiator. After all, as leader of the world’s only… Read more.
UN pledged this week to get even tougher with Syria. Yeah, right!
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Now Houla: Assad of Syria continues to massacre with impunity
Reports over the weekend on the massacre (door to door, execution style) of over 100 men, women, and children in the Houla region of Syria by forces still loyal to President Bashar al-Assad had the international community recoiling in horror. I have come to Syria at a critical moment in this crisis… I am personally shocked… Read more.