It has not been a bad week for either Barack Obama or the United Nations. Monday evening, Obama caught the world off guard by launching disruptive airstrikes against ISIL (aka ISIS, IS, or Caliphate) assets in Syria. Warplanes from the Gulf States participated in the strikes, which are continuing.
The activity at the UN shows serious U.S. diplomatic skill. In the face of an existing Russian assertion that it would regard an attack on Syria as an act of aggression, the U.S. ambassador to the UN quietly advised the Syrian ambassador as a diplomatic courtesy that strikes against ISIS installations on …read more
Source: Ottawa Citizen
