Obama Negotiations With Taliban Not Good for America
“This is an organization, the Taliban, that has closed over 500 children’s schools — we can’t have those kids getting educated — and by the way, the majority of those are girls’ schools,” Rogers told Hannity. “The same organization that poisoned girls, little girls, to prove the point that they didn’t believe that girls should get an education.”

‘Don’t arm maniacs’: London’s mayor opposes weapon support for Syrian rebels
Arming the Syrian rebels would be “pressing weapons into the hands of maniacs and Al-Qaeda thugs,” London’s mayor has warned. His is the latest call in a wave of rhetoric urging the UK prime minister not to provide the Syrian rebels with weapons. 

As the world yawns: Growing arc of chaos in the Middle East
Recently much has been made of the so-called “Arc of Shi’ism”, from Lebanon to Iran, through Syria and Iraq. I submit that what is more significant is the much broader and longer “Arc of Chaos”, from Tunisia to Pakistan. Of this huge chunk of the world, and in the face of an astounding lack of interest on the part of Europe and The United States, only Israel, Jordan and the Gulf states (with the exception of Bahrain), have escaped the encompassing and growing anarchy.  

Middle East state reportedly sends rebels antitank missiles
An unnamed Middle Eastern state has supplied Syrian rebels with 250 sophisticated Soviet-made anti-tank missiles, most of which were given to radical Islamist militias fighting President Bashar Assad, according to a report published in London-based Arabic daily A-Sharq Al-Awsat on Tuesday.