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White House Signals No Ground Troops in Iraq

Drawing criticism from Iraqi officials, 60-year-old Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said the Iraqi military has lost their will to fight, allowing the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria to take Ramadi, the capital of Sunni-rich Anbar Province.  Abandoning their weapons...

Iraq’s Military Falls Apart Fighting ISIS

Watching Ramadi fall to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria May 17, the beleaguered Iraq military hoped to use Sunni and Shiite militias to reclaim land lost to ISIS since the 2014 ISIS blitzkrieg that grabbed some 30% of Iraq’s land.  Since President Barack Obama...

GOP Beats Dead Horse on Hillary’s Benghazi Emails

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus hopes that keeping Hillary’s role in the Sept. 11. 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya damages her 2016 presidential hopes.  Establishing the House Select Committee on Benghazi May 5, 2014, Priebus...

ISIS Offers Guns, Butter and Salvation

Battling the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and other terrorist groups is bad enough for the U.S. and its Western allies.  Capturing enough on-the-ground intel and coordinating with predator drones and Special Ops occupies much of U.S. military intelligence, planning...

Fed Not Ready to Raise Interest Rates

Reading economic tea leaves, Wall Street can’t figure out what Federal Reserved Board Chairwoman Janet Yellen and the Open Market Committee will do about raising interest rates when they meet in June to set monetary policy.  Set at rock bottom Dec. 16, 2008 by former...