As the Ramadan “Bye-Month”Approaches, Predictions Vary Over What Factions Will Emerge in Iraq
Bing West, Steven Groves, John Hayward, Victor Davis Hanson
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Bing West, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs during the Reagan Administration examines the future of Iraq. He expects that the combination of fasting during the upcoming month of Ramadan and the high temperatures in Iraq will lead to a temporary calm, after which new factions are expected to emerge and battle for power in the country.
On today’s show:
BING WEST, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
- Maliki’s sectarianism as the root of the Iraq crisis
- Prospects for Sunni and Shiite infighting during a potential lull in fighting over Ramadan
- Obama’s perspective on America’s appropriate role in the world: a regional power?
- The distancing of the military from the Obama White House
STEVEN GROVES, Heritage Foundation:
- Questions over the timing of the capture of Ahmed Abu Khattala by U.S. special forces
- Hillary Clinton, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and attempts to limit the First Amendment
JOHN HAYWARD, staff writer at Human Events:
- The invasion of the US border and the “Children Crusade”–why are parents sending their children unaccompanied through Central America to the United States?
- Evidence suggesting the Obama Administration and the Department of Homeland Security expected the current surge of minor illegal immigrants, and the federal government’s need to house and care for them
- Displacing effect on American workers of the immigration visa program
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON, Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution:
- A comparison of the immigration views of Eric Cantor and the new House Republican Majority Leader, Kevin McCarthy
- The moral and practical issues associated with amnesty and the “New Children’s Crusade”
- What really led the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq?
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