by Patricia H. Kushlis | Dec 3, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis CALAIS-ISTANBUL: All Aboard! I have long been an Agatha Christie fan, especially of her murder mysteries set in the Middle East. The Murder on the Orient Express, of course, is the classic – but rumors to the contrary – her most...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Oct 30, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee SharpeYou gotta feel sorry for those ISIS guys. Young guys. In great physical condition. Yeah! Probably their equipment is in top working condition, by which I don’t mean the tanks and rocket launchers they captured from the Iraqi so-called army...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Sep 18, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Before I began Professor Freedman’s book on strategy, I didn’t realize that I would be embarking on a painstakingly detailed 751 page historical journey of the meaning and applications of an increasingly popular – yet too often poorly...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Jun 13, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee SharpeBy the U.S.? Nothing. As unsavory as Saddam Hussain was, the U.S. had no call to invade Iraq in 2003 and should never have done so. As for the situation in Iraq today, if the current government in Baghdad is indeed facing an existential threat...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Nov 18, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe Some Right-leaning members of Congress take an all or nothing approach to policy and legislation. To them compromise is a violation of principle with connotations of betrayal and heresy. The martyrdom of starvation is infinitely preferable to...
