Archives for the ‘US Politics’ Category
Peres endorses US plan to arm Syrian rebels
Unknown - ICEJ News, June 18th, 2013In an interview with Reuters on the sidelines of his 90th birthday party Monday, Israeli President Shimon Peres endorsed a recent decision by US President Barak Obama to arm rebel factions in Syria. But Assad himself told the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in an interview published on Tuesday that the West would regret arming rebel factions battling his regime.
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A Half-Measure in Syria
Daniel Foster - National Review Online, June 17th, 2013The White House has announced that the president has authorized the “expansion of . . . assistance to the Supreme Military Council (SMC),” one of several military arms of the Syrian rebellion. This after a month of careful reflection on whether the Assad regime used chemical weapons and thus crossed the president’s “red line,” which, in fact, turned out to be more of a pinkish squiggle.
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Obama's Snooping Excludes Mosques, Missed Boston Bombers
Editorial - Investor's Business Daily, June 12th, 2013Homeland Insecurity: The White House assures that tracking our every phone call and keystroke is to stop terrorists, and yet it won't snoop in mosques, where the terrorists are.
That's right, the government's sweeping surveillance of our most private communications excludes the jihad factories where homegrown terrorists are radicalized.
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Almost All Survivors Now Get Reparations
Allison Hoffman - Tablet Magazine, June 17th, 2013John Kerry has been re-engaging in Middle East peace negotiations, which will—if he can get them off the ground—kick the collection of age-old hornets nests of the conflict. One such nest has, while the Obama Administration was resting quietly, received some attention in academic circles: the question of reparations for Palestinians for property lost in 1948.
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Obama Threatens Veto of Religious Protection for Military
Ken Klukowski - Breitbart News, June 12th, 2013Breitbart News reported last week that Rep. John Fleming (R-LA) passed an amendment in the House Armed Services Committee protecting religious speech of service members in the military. President Barack Obama has now threatened to veto the bill if it passes the full House and Senate.
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