Tag Archives: ISIS

Five things about the killing of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

By Mark | October 27, 2019

In the early morning hours of May 2, 2011, a U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group, as part of an operation code-named Neptune Spear, entered a fortified compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and executed Osama bin Laden, the head of the Islamist terrorist group Al-Qaeda. In a televised announcement later that day, a sober Barack Obama […]

Posted in Other, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Abbottabad, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, al Qaeda, assassination, Barack Obama, baseball, booing, chants, credit, crying, Donald Trump, hypocrisy, hypocrisy watch, Idlib, Kurds, lock him up, Mike Pence, Navy SEALS, Neptune Spear, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Russia, screaming, September 11, Situation Room, Syria, terrorism, threats to Democracy, Washington Nationals, whimpering, William McRaven, World Series | 67 Comments

THE TRUMP DOCTRINE: Appeasing Tyrants, Freeing terrorists and Endangering Allies to Achieve Maximum Chaos in a Post-Diplomacy World

By Mark | October 13, 2019

When Donald Trump announced last week that, at the request of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey, he would be pulling back American troops stationed in Syria, everyone knew exactly what would happen. We knew that our allies, the Kurds, would be wiped out by the Turks. And that’s exactly what’s happening right now. […]

Posted in History, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Ahrar as-Sharqiya, border security, border wall, chaos, Chuck Schumer, diplomacy, Donald Trump, enemy combatants, ethnic cleansing, Europe, foreign relations, Havrin Khalaf, Homeland Security, jihad, Kurds, M4, mercenaries, murder, offending allies, Qamishli, Richard Engel, Russia, Stephen Miller, Syria, Syria Future Party, Tayyip Erdogan, terrorism, threats to Democracy, Turkey, war, withdrawal | 35 Comments

Notes taken during the May 10, 2017 meeting between Trump and the Russian Ambassador to the United States may exist, and may show that Trump said he was fine with their election interference

By Mark | September 28, 2019

On May 9, 2017, President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, the man who, up to that point, had been leading the investigation into Russian interference during the 2016 election. Trump, the very next day, welcomed Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Putin’s Ambassador to the United States Sergei Kislyak into the White House […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2016, but her emails, collusion, Dan Coats, Donald Trump, election interference, FBI, H.R. McMaster, Helsinki, Hillary Clinton, intelligence community, James Comey, Michale Flynn, national intelligence, Obama, Robert Mueller, Russia, Russiagate, sanctions, Sergei Kislyak, Sergei Lavrov, treason, Vladimir Putin, White House | 45 Comments

If we “defeated ISIS in Syria,” how is it that they killed four American citizens today?

By Mark | January 16, 2019

Remember how, just before Christmas, Donald Trump announced that he’d decided to pull our troops out of Syria without having run it by either our allies or our own military leaders? And remember how, at the time, he said that, thanks to his tremendous leadership, ISIS had been defeated in Syria, and how Defense Secretary […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Benghazi, Caliphate, Donald Trump, Jim Mattis, Manbij, Mike Pence, Syria, terrorism | 4 Comments

Trump’s unilateral decision to pull out of Syria sends Defense Secretary Jim Mattis for the door

By Mark | December 20, 2018

Today, in the wake of Donald Trump’s surprise decision to pull American troops out of Syria without first consulting either our allies, or our military leaders in the field, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis submitted his letter of resignation, making the revered General the most recent in a long line of people to either walk away […]