Russia and China enabled Syrian President Assad’s war on his own people.
UN Security Council Vetoes Gave Assad License to Attack Syrians
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U.S. Intervention in Syria Wouldn’t Be an Issue if the UN Security Council Did Its Job
The U.S. can’t resist jumping into the security vacuum created when Russia and China refuse to help rein in Syrian President Assad.
Assad Regime Must Pay Reparations to Help With Costs of Refugee Crisis
Is there a way, beyond sanctions, of recouping costs for the refugee crisis from the Assad regime?
Orlando and the Future of Terrorism
It’s tempting to use a harsh epithet like “terrorism” to describe the actions in Orlando. Perhaps “mass hate crime” would be more accurate.
The Pentagon Shouldn’t Get to Absolve Itself for Bombing a Hospital
We need an independent investigation of the brutal U.S. attack on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan, which killed 42 people.
The Islamic State Is to Islam as Moonshine Is to Whisky
The Islamic State, like 150% proof moonshine, is pure, but deadly.
Islamic State Sows Seeds of Its Destruction
Inviting blowback and decimating your tax base are not how to build a caliphate.
Bureaucracy of Death May Prove Assad’s Downfall
As with other totalitarian regimes, obsessive record-keeping may come back to haunt the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad.
Bad as the Islamic State Is, Assad Is Worse
The violence of the Assad regime in Syria resembles that of another regime which shall remain nameless.
The Islamic State’s Cash Flow Problems
The Islamic State is growing increasingly illiquid — are layoffs imminent?