(Photo: Ahmed Khan Rahami, 29, convicted in October 2017 of the September 2016 New York City and New Jersey bombings, injuring 30). In 1992 I took an overnight train from Moscow to Ukraine, with an escort who knew the ropes…
Category: Muslim Brotherhood
If It Sneaks in the Night like a Raid, and Targets Like a Raid
It’s a raid. Dammit. And not a war. A raid is designed to achieve a limited objective. Raids are not impetuous, born of anger or moral indignation…so no, Ivanka seeing children dead from gas did not prompt this raid. Entebbe…
I’m Not a Big Fan of Paul Manafort, but…
(There are lies, and damned lies….” -Mark Twain) I’m absolutely delirious in my dislike for the Associated Press. And it’s all about honesty and dishonesty. Now, personally I’ve never known Mr Manafort to lie, but I suppose he has uttered…
Syria’s Three (3) Bad Guys Exposed
There were always two bad guys in Syria, ever since the Assad family took over the Ba’ath Party and created a military dictatorship in 1970. Hafez al-Assad ruled Syria until he died in 2000. He ruled with an iron fist,…
Baathist Syria vs. the Muslim Brotherhood, Part II
The Baathist Party of Syria, under Hafez al-Assad took power in Syria in 1970. The are an old style dictatorial regime ruling with an iron fist. The Baathists, while paying lip service to Islam was/is essentially a secular political regime,…