Tag Archives: Syria

Pre-election Distemper

Posted on November 4, 2016 by Jacques Delacroix

I warn you that I am not in a good mood today. Read at your own risk. Breathless news: The best college soccer team in America was just suspended by university authorities. The players’ trespass is to have been discovered … Continue reading →

Posted in Current Events, Uncategorized | Tagged Afghanistan, Alabama, Aleppo, black church set afire, car bombs, Clinton, elections, general, Islamist terrorists, militants, Mosul, Obama, Osama, Osama Bin Laden, Pentagon, political generals, Putin, rating men, rating women, Russia, Russian military, Shiite mosque, soccer, Soviet Union, Syria, Trump, Wall Street Journal | Leave a comment

Asylum Seekers and Western Military Intervention

Posted on September 27, 2015 by Jacques Delacroix

Recently, Brandon Christensen, the capable Editor of the libertarian blog Notes on Liberty (NOL) tried to take me behind the woodpile, again! (Note for our overseas readers: To take someone behind the woodpile usually a child -is to spank him … Continue reading →

Posted in Socio-Political Essays | Tagged Afghanistan, Albania, asylum, Bosnia, Croatia, Eritrea, Germany, Iraq, Kosovo, Libertarian, R refugees, Serbia, Syria | Leave a comment

The Ottoman Empire and Libertarianism; Ebola

Posted on October 18, 2014 by Jacques Delacroix

A week ago in the allied blog Notes on Liberty, economist Fred Folvary asked in a speculative mode whether the re-establishment of the Ottoman Empire would not be a formula for peace in the troubled Middle East. The question is … Continue reading →

Posted in Current Events, Socio-Political Essays | Tagged Arabian Peninsula, Arabs, Armenian genocide, Center for Disease Control, Ebola, epidemic, Folvary, FRance, Hapsburg, Hasan Ceymal, Irak, Islamic state, Israel, JOrdan, Kruds, Kuwait, libertarianism, millet, millet system, Morgenthau, Notes on Liberty, Otoman Emprie, Palestine, Prussia, sultan, Syria, Turkish Empire, virus | 13 Comments

Doubts About Danger from ISIS, the so-called “Islamic State,” (“IS”) and the Long War Ahead

Posted on October 1, 2014 by Jacques Delacroix

I am sure that ISIS, the “Islamic State, ” (IS) needs destruction, through extermination or through any other means. That entity is one of the several clear manifestations of dire evil in my lifetime and since Nazism. If it’s allowed … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged beheading, decapitation, Iraqi army, ISIL, ISIS, Islamic Republic of Iran, Islamic state, jihadists, Kurds, Saddam Hussein, Sharia, Syria, terrorism, war in Iraq, western recruits | 4 Comments

A Warm Christmas Day; Christianity and Syria

Posted on December 25, 2013 by Jacques Delacroix

Christmas Day is in central California; it’s not even often that warm there in the middle of August. (For my friends out in the world, that’s 21 C. ) I find myself hoping that I am wrong, that the global … Continue reading →

Posted in Current Events | Tagged Baath Party, Christmas, Islamo-fascism, Syria, Syrina Christianity | Leave a comment

Syria; Kosovo; Republicans’ Bad Dreams.

Posted on September 7, 2013 by Jacques Delacroix

President Obama has managed to divide the Republican Party beyond his wildest dreams although he may not have done it on purpose. The topic is the announced intervention in Syria. The libertarian branch of the Republican Party is now comprised … Continue reading →

Posted in Current Events | Tagged Al Quaida, amantha Powers, Assad, Bosnia, civilians, gas, gassing, gaz, Iraq war, John Kerry, Kosovo, Mali, Milosevich, Milosevitch, NATO, Obama, Pearl Harbor, Pelosi, Reid, Republican Party, Russia, Rwanda, Security Cuncil, statism, Syria, UN, United Nations, Yugoslavs | 8 Comments

The Moral Foundations of “Humanitarian” Intervention: Lies, Logical Fallacies and Fairy Dust

Posted on July 23, 2013 by Brandon Christensen

Note from JD: Brandon Christensen has been asked off my blog for calling me a “liar.” No one is entitled to insult anyone else on this blog, for whatever reason. I require civil discourse. This post stays on because I … Continue reading →

Posted in comments by others, Current Events, Socio-Political Essays | Tagged "Responsibility to Protect", humanitarian war, imperialism, libertarianism, logical fallacies, Syria, war and peace | 12 Comments

Rational Ignorance, Fairy Dust and Pissing Away the Future: Libertarians are Selfish and Stupid

Posted on June 23, 2013 by Brandon Christensen

Note: I did nothing to re-post or stop the re-posting of this old thing on my blog. It got to the head of my (short ) list today without any intervention from me. Its author is an adept engineer of … Continue reading →

Posted in comments by others, Current Events, Facts Matter | Tagged dishonesty, foreign policy, imperialism, logical fallacies, rational ignorance, Syria | 30 Comments

Syrians’ Deaths Not Our Business (Updated January 2th 2013)

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Jacques Delacroix

This was first published January 12th 2012, twelve months ago, and again in June 2012, five months ago. Below a January 2013 update Brave Syrians continue to die day- by-day trying to get what we take for granted: The right … Continue reading →

Posted in Bitching, Current Events | Tagged Al Assad, Alepo, Assad, civil war, Damascus, intervention, massacres, Syria | 27 Comments

The UN, Our Beacon of Humanity

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Jacques Delacroix

I keep wondering why any serious people right or left take seriously the United Nations General Assembly’s pretense of being a quasi-world parliament and the UN Security Council’s pretense of being a responsible world executive. Neither claim makes sense on … Continue reading →

Posted in Current Events | Tagged Al Assad, Arab League, Assad, BathParty, China, cultural relativism, General Assembly, Homs, Human Rights Watch, intervention, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Security Council, Security Council vote, Syria, United Nations | 24 Comments