set to
discuss his plan for confronting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
(ISIL) in a primetime speech this evening. According to press reports, the president is ready to
authorize the use of military strikes against the group in Syria. Thus
far, American military action has been limited to neighboring Iraq. This is a
step in the right direction by Obama. As the administration recognizes, the U.S. and its allies cannot take the fight to
ISIL without targeting its substantive strongholds in Syria.

Friday, September 12, 2014

The glitzy NATO summit in Newport has not publicly announced major
decisions but it is likely that they were taken in secret. To prevent
Russia and China - but also India - from continuing their development,
NATO can count on Terrorism from the Islamic Emirate which it pretends
to condemn andfight.

The Newport (Wales) Summit is NATO’s largest since
the 2002 Prague edition. At the time, it meant to include new central
and eastern European states within the Alliance. This time it’s about
planning a long-term strategy to contain the development of Russia and
China so as to prevent their competing with the United States [1].

Anything related to NATO is a matter of debate. Indeed, it has
continued, since its inception in 1949, to manipulate the facts to
present itself as a defensive alliance against Soviet expansionism,
whereas it is the Warsaw Pact, created six years later in 1955, which
aimed to defend the socialist states in the face of Anglo-Saxon (and not
vice versa) imperialism.

Despite tensions stemming from their domestic policies,
non-Islamist actors such as Egypt and the Gulf monarchies are America's
natural partners in the region because they