After the fall of Assad, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that much of the credit should go to Israel, for having so weakened Hezbollah that it was unable to help prop up Assad’s military. He put it this way: Assad’s fall was the “direct result of the heavy blows we landed on Hamas, on […]
World Assembly of Islamic Awakening top dog: ‘Expulsion of the Americans from Afghanistan a great victory’
Many will see this crowing as an indication that American troops shouldn’t leave Afghanistan until “the job is done,” i.e., when it would be impossible for enemies of the United States to claim victory. That would be exactly never. The misadventure in Afghanistan was doomed from the outset. Afghanistan was never going to become a […]