Thomas Wictor

Posts Tagged ‘US Central Command’

Final phase of Syrian civil war is about to begin

The smart way to win wars is to shape the battlefield. It’s also called battlefield preparation. I believe that the Arab League and its allies have finished laying the groundwork for the final phase of the Syrian war. Final may not mean soon Although the fighting may not stop in the immediate future, it’s clear…

 

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Saddam Hussein and the Palestinians

I supported what we in the US call Operation Iraqi Freedom (March 20, 2003 to December 18, 2011). The main reason I supported it was that Saddam Hussein was a state sponsor of international terrorism. Other nations sponsor terrorism, but Saddam was the only leader willing to use weapons of mass destruction on a large…

 

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This is why I debunked the Islamic State video

My post “The Islamic State did not burn the Jordanian pilot alive” made a lot of people angry. They said that I was trying to minimize Islamic State savagery, and that the post denigrated the courage of Royal Jordanian Air Force pilot Lieutenant Moath Youssef al-Kasasbeh. If you actually read the post, you saw that…

 

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