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emoseley2017

ISIS Fight Raises Fears That Efforts to Curb Iran Will Slip - 0 views

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  • emoseley2017 on 15 Sep 14
     
    WASHINGTON - President Obama's decision to engage in a lengthy battle to defeat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria reorders the global priorities of his final years in office. The mystery is whether it will deprive him of the legacy he had once hoped would define his second term, or enhance it instead.
matthan

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/president-obama-address-nation-isis-strategy-25405041 - 0 views

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Middle East Political interactions ISIS Cultural Americas

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mgt2011

U.S. General Is Open to Ground Force to Fight ISIS in Iraq - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • ground operations against Islamic extremists in Iraq if airstrikes prove insufficient, opening the door to a riskier, more expansive American combat role than the president has publicly outlined.
    • mgt2011
      mgt2011 on 17 Sep 14
       
      How aware are we of how well their military can fight in that kind of war fare
  • something Mr. Obama has ruled out.
    • mgt2011
      mgt2011 on 17 Sep 14
       
      why has he ruled this out
  • Mr. Obama, seeking to allay fears of another Iraq war, has promised that American ground troops will not be involved in fighting the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL. In a sign of the administration’s mixed message, the president pointedly did not call it a war, while his advisers later did.
    • mgt2011
      mgt2011 on 17 Sep 14
       
      Two different government leaders saying two very different things. Is Obama afraid of fighting? 
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  • hances of civilian casualties are much higher.
    • mgt2011
      mgt2011 on 17 Sep 14
       
      important
  • The White House insisted on Tuesday that Mr. Obama was not shifting his policy and that General Dempsey was not out of sync with his commander in chief.
    • mgt2011
      mgt2011 on 17 Sep 14
       
      these mixed messages are so alarming because it is clear that they are scrambling to form a plan 
  • the White House press secretary, Josh Earnest, said to reporters. “It’s also the responsibility of the commander in chief to set out a clear policy.”
    • mgt2011
      mgt2011 on 17 Sep 14
       
      important
  • The challenge will come, General Dempsey said, when Iraqi and Kurdish forces try to drive the militants out of densely-populated urban areas like Mosul.
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      mgt2011 on 17 Sep 14
       
      human shield
  • “To many of us that seems like an inadequate response,” he said.
    • mgt2011
      mgt2011 on 17 Sep 14
       
      are we doing enough? When is it too much? Is it ever too much? 
danw55

White House presses Congress to vote now on arming Syrian rebels | Fox News - 0 views

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    "White House presses Congress to vote now on arming Syrian rebels"
jamescmcguire

Lila Abu-Lughod: Do Muslim Women Need Saving? | TIME.com - 0 views

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  • But we were confusing veiling with a lack of agency. What most of us didn’t know is that 30 years ago the anthropologist Hanna Papanek described the burqa as “portable seclusion” and noted that many women saw it as a liberating invention because it enabled them to move out of segregated living spaces while still observing the requirements of separating and protecting women from unrelated men.
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      rtussey on 10 Sep 14
       
      But isn't the problem that they feel they need protection from "unrelated men"? True they are able to go into public, but their living spaces are still segregated. She goes on to critique Western women for feeling liberated but still being constricted by "tyrannies of fashion." However, I don't see these two issues as comparable. True, American women will face criticism and experience disadvantages if they do not conform to basic social beauty norms, but they will still be allowed to leave their homes and interact with society. 
  • A moral crusade to rescue oppressed Muslim women from their cultures and their religion has swept the public sphere, dissolving distinctions between conservatives and liberals, sexists and feminists. The crusade has justified all manner of intervention from the legal to the military, the humanitarian to the sartorial. But it has also reduced Muslim women to a stereotyped singularity, plastering a handy cultural icon over much more complicated historical and political dynamics.
  • There is no doubt that Western notions of human rights can be credited for the hope for a better world for all women. But I suspect that the deep moral conviction people feel about the rightness of saving the women of that timeless homogeneous mythical place called Islamland is fed by something else that cannot be separated from our current geopolitical relations. Blinded to the diversity of Muslim women’s lives, we tend to see our own situation too comfortably. Representing Muslim women as
gracegriffin

Politics - Election News - Breaking News, Blogs, Results - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • Democrats Plan Bill Authorizing U.S. Military to Train Enemies of ISIS
gabgonzalezzz

Violence Erupts in Yemen Capital After Weeks of Rallies - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "Violence Erupts in Yemen Capital After Weeks of Rallies"
andie324

Afghanistan accuses US of killing civilians in airstrike | Al Jazeera America - 0 views

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  • who has often criticized the conduct of NATO forces
  • id 14 people died
  • and another 13 were wounded.
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  • At least 14 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in a U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday, sparking condemnation from President Hamid Karzai, who has often criticized the conduct of NATO forces.
    • andie324
      andie324 on 11 Sep 14
       
      Why did the US deploy an airstrike? What was the purpose? Will Afghanistan retaliate? 
  • Civilian casualties in the U.S.-led military coalition’s war against the Taliban have been one of the most contentious issues in the 13-year combat campaign that will end by December. NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) made no immediate comment on Tuesday's airstrike, but it often stresses avoiding civilian casualties.
    • andie324
      andie324 on 11 Sep 14
       
      The airstrikes by the US in Afghanistan were acts of offense to fight against the Taliban, who are currently in control.
  • "Four of our villagers were on their way back home from work when airplanes bombed them," he told AFP. "When people went to the area to collect their bodies or take the wounded people to hospital, we were bombed again. Dozens of people, including women and children were killed, or wounded."
    • andie324
      andie324 on 11 Sep 14
       
      Innocent civilians and villagers in Afghanistan are being killed by the airstrikes. 
johntraurig2017

My Library - 0 views

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allypeterka

The Iraq-ISIS Conflict in Maps, Photos and Video - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria controls territory greater than many countries and now rivals Al Qaeda as the world’s most powerful jihadist group
  • The United Nations estimates that militants with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria have forced nearly 180,000 families — or more than a million people — from their homes in Iraq
parkerwsmith

Australia raises terror alert level to 'high' - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • Australia has raised its terror alert level to "high" for the first time since the national alert system was introduced in 2003.
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