Reading Time: 3 minutes If the arc of Iran’s influence grows, on the strength of new nuclear capacity, the whole dynamic in the region will change
Tag: War/Conflict
More hawkish Trudeau is a welcome change
Reading Time: 4 minutes No matter how distasteful it may be to some, the change in Trudeau’s worldview – from pacifist to “warmonger” – was long overdue
Nice attack symptomatic of an evolving Islamic State
Reading Time: 4 minutes With the tide turning against it on the battlefield, ISIS is returning to a campaign of indiscriminate urban violence
The Syrian ceasefire is a farce
Reading Time: 3 minutes From the Kremlin’s standpoint, the ‘Syrian ceasefire’ served its political purpose – it forestalled a Turkish ground invasion of Syria
Divvying up the Middle East after First World War
Reading Time: 3 minutes Beating-up on Britain’s Sir Mark Sykes and France’s Francois Georges-Picot for today’s mess in the Middle East is just plain silly
A war by any other name is still a war, Mr. Trudeau
Reading Time: 4 minutes Despite the Trudeau government’s denials, a state of war does exist between Canada and ISIL
The murky dilemma of our role fighting ISIS
Reading Time: 3 minutes Backing away from Canadian airstrikes is consistent with our national conscience, but huge moral questions remain
Operation Desert Storm 25 years later
Reading Time: 3 minutes Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait and the American response dramatically impacted the politics of the Middle East
History passes judgment on Nuremberg Trials
Reading Time: 3 minutes A classic case of victor’s justice masquerading as a modern judicial proceeding
The unlikely pair who defrosted the Cold War
Reading Time: 3 minutes Reagan and Gorbachev managed to do what had seemed impossible, essentially ending the Cold War 30 years ago this month