I began writing this blog post about global hotspots three weeks ago assuming Hillary Clinton would be the next president of the United States. The Global Hotspots remain the same but how […]
Syria, The 21st Century Great Game
The Great Game once described the battle between the British and Russian Empire for supremacy in Central Asia in the 1800s. Today’s Syrian Great Game has multiple players who could develop the cold […]
Terrorism and US Foreign Policy: Wrong Priorities, again
Once again the United States terrorist and foreign policy have the wrong priorities. This time it is how to protect the US homeland against ISIS. The rhetoric and military focus is on ISIS in […]
The Enemy Within
The US, the people and its congress, all fear Middle East migrants and a Parisian style attack with good reason. The bombing campaign in Syria and Iraq are fuelling widespread hatred […]
An Endless Cycle of Violence
We seem to be locked into an endless cycle of ‘tit for tat’ violence – Israelis and Palestinians, Muslim extremists and the West. Every act by one engenders a violent response by […]
A Medley of Issues
Israel Netanyahu’s win did not come as a surprise but it does throw a spanner into the works and the US’s (and international) unrealistic expectation for a two state solution. As […]
Muddle East Policy
Commentary about the recent conference in Tehran by the West interpreted the disagreement amongst the participants, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran and Turkey as Iran being out of step with all others and […]
Syria a.k.a. Iraq
There was an excellent article outlining two possible scenarios for Syria on AP mobile news last week, neither of them good. To quote: “One scenario: a bloodbath as Syria’s majority Sunni population, […]
Ongoing Arab Spring II
This blog can best be summarised at the outset with lines by the witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth……. “Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble” I last wrote […]
Iraq: Looking Ahead from the Past
This Post below is a reprint from 2005 and although there are some points with regard to weighting I might change, the overall view is one I still hold, namely that Iraq […]
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