Almost half of Swedish women are regularly prisoners in their own home because it is too dangerous to go outside. Religious police and gangs are controlling ever larger areas. There are not enough police to stabilize the country. There is no help in sight for the Swedes, and Sweden is becoming an ever greater security […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Why Turkey Should Be Expelled From NATO (Reason #877)
Let’s recapitulate: Erdogan has repeatedly attacked the Kurds in Syria, who have been our closest allies against ISIS. He has carried on a campaign of vilification against the United States for refusing to hand over Fethulleh Gulen to Erdogan’s “justice.” He has drawn closer to Putin and to Russia, and gone ahead with his pledge […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Why Turkey Should Be Expelled From NATO (Reason #876)
Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced in mid-December that a new Turkish offensive in northern Syria would target Kurdish forces, in order to push them back from the Syrian-Turkish border. This was not a surprise. For years, Erdogan has shown more interest in fighting the Kurds in Syria than in fighting ISIS. In fact, in fighting the […]
Our Saver-In-Chief
Yesterday the White House tweeted: “In today’s Cabinet meeting, President @realDonaldTrump directed each member of his Cabinet to streamline their agency’s budget by 5 percent this fiscal year.” In a similar vein, Donald Trump finds outrageous the amounts of money the American government spends for defense while other countries, our supposed allies, persist in not […]
Erdogan: “What kind of NATO membership is this? What kind of NATO alliance is this?”
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who always likes to tell us what he really thinks, is at it again. Last year he accused the people of Germany — and of the Netherlands too — of being “Nazis” for not allowing political rallies targeted at Turkish residents in Germany. He also called Angela Merkel guilty of “Nazism” for […]
Trump: NATO “obsolete,” Merkel made “catastrophic mistake” in admitting Muslim migrants
NATO is indeed obsolete: it was designed to defend the West against the Soviet Union. The American Left always downplayed the Soviet threat and mocked those who called attention to it; now, of course, the American Left has become more exercised about the Russians than Joe McCarthy ever was, but that doesn’t make NATO any […]
Turkey: Erdogan’s Stealth Jihad Against the West
“Erdogan’s Turkey is a solitary nation. It does not belong to Europe. Hence its failure to join the EU, despite a half century-long effort. Theoretically it is a NATO ally and a ‘strategic partner’ of the US. In reality, it is hostile to Western civilization and the US is only a tactical partner — a […]
US lost track of hundreds of thousands of weapons given out in Iraq and Afghanistan
Many, if not most, of these weapons ended up in the hands of the Islamic State and other jihad groups. We are arming those who have vowed to destroy us. “How Many Guns Did the U.S. Lose Track of in Iraq and Afghanistan? Hundreds of Thousands.,” by C. J. Chivers, New York Times, August 24, […]
Turkey: 7,000 armed police in heavy vehicles surround NATO air base after huge rally accuses US of role in failed coup
This “security check” is hardly the action of a friend and ally. It is odd that Erdogan, who has been so friendly with Obama, would think he had a hand in the coup, but in any case, this just reemphasizes that rapidly re-Islamizing Turkey is no friend or ally of the United States, and should […]
NATO commander: The Islamic State is “spreading like cancer” among Muslim migrants to Europe
Anyone could have and should have seen this coming. But no one in power cared to do so. Last February, the Islamic State boasted it would soon flood Europe with as many as 500,000 refugees. And the Lebanese Education Minister recently said that there were 20,000 jihadis among the refugees in camps in his country. […]