Tyranny, Thy Name is Syria
Over the weekend, Nick Cohen in the UK Guardian provided halting testimony to just how macabre the abuse of human rights by the Assad regime in Syria has become. From the piece: To grasp the scale of...
View ArticleThe UN: Feckless on Syria
In my new column this week, I profile President Obama’s manifest weakness in responding to Syria and Iran — a weakness that belies the reputation for hawkishness that he seems to have been cultivating...
View ArticleThe Price of Resisting Tyranny in Syria
I’ve written in this space before about the human rights atrocities being committed by the Assad regime in Syria, which are limited only by the perverse imaginations of the state-employed sociopaths...
View ArticleUN Human Rights Chief Inserts Herself into Trayvon Martin Case
Last month, I posted here on the blog about the U.N. Human Rights Commission’s risible-if-it-wasn’t-so-deplorable failure to deal with the enormous human rights violations occurring in Bashar...
View ArticleOn Evil and Limitations: The Situation in Syria
Throughout the year, I’ve repeatedly been critical here at CFIF of the atrocities occuring in Bashar al-Assad’s Syria and the feckless Western response they’ve engendered. What I haven’t done, however,...
View ArticleSyrian Resolution Looks Doomed to Failure
Earlier today, Rick Klein, Political Director for ABC News, tweeted out that 217 members of the House of Representatives have gone on record “as likely to oppose authorizing military force against...
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