Tag: Islamic State

• Chemical weapons: bad. Barrel bombs: okay

  Of course it was only a matter of time before Trump decided to flex our nation’s military might. Predictably his actions turned out to be both scary and counterproductive and predictably it happened as his poll numbers were dropping like a stone. Thursday’s launch of 59 Tomahawk missiles against an airbase in Syria got most…

  Mark

  April 9, 2017

  Politics 2017

  Iraq, Islamic State, Mosul, Obama, Syria, Trump

• Free speech has limits

  If freedom is not free then last week’s terrorist incidents in Paris by Islamic terrorists proves that free speech is not free either. In the unlikely event you were away from the news the last week, sixteen people including four French Jews and one Muslim policeman were murdered by Islamic terrorists in two incidents in…

  Mark

  January 12, 2015

  Philosophy, Politics 2015, Sociology

  Charlie Hebdo, Freedom of speech, Islam, Islamic State, Taliban, Terrorism

• Obama’s strategy is a pretty poor strategy

  Dear President Obama, Can we go back to a lack of strategy regarding the Islamic State? Of course you were ridiculed by much of the media (and naturally Republicans) when the Islamic State started beheading American (and now a British) journalists and you confessed the United States did not have a strategy. Now apparently we…

  Mark

  September 16, 2014

  Politics 2014

  Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Iran, Iraq, Islamic State, Saddam Hussein, Syria

• Obama’s lack of a strategy so far is a pretty good strategy

  Yikes! It’s almost the end of August and I haven’t written anything about politics this month! I thought retirement would give me all this extra time to blog, but so far it has not been the case. About half of the month has been spent on vacation, which I blogged about, and the other half…

  Mark

  August 31, 2014

  Politics 2014

  Barack Obama, Gaza Strip, Iraq, ISIS, Islamic State, Israel