Trudeau's retreat from the war against ISIS

Quebec cartoonist on Prime Minister #Trudeau’s decision to abandon Canada's war against the Islamic State ISIS. pic.twitter.com/32pgVfvWLr

— Tarek Fatah (@TarekFatah) October 22, 2015

Tarek Fatah also points out Gen Rick Hillier's views on the need for greater Canadian participation went unheeded.  Though Trudeau did like Hillier's support for accepting more refugees.

So, true to his word, Justin is following through on his pledge to take in refugees while simultaneously enabling ISIS to create more of them.

Russian lies, American fecklessness

Reaction to Russian air strikes in Syria:




And for an even more pessimistic outlook, here's Ralph Peters:

Obama's Middle East mess just got messier

Russia Launches Airstrikes in Nothern Syria

Russian warplanes began bombarding Syrian opposition targets in the war-torn nation's north Wednesday, following a terse meeting at which a Russian general asked Pentagon officials to clear out of Syrian air space and was rebuffed, Fox News has learned.

... The strikes hit targets in Homs and Hama, but there is no presence of ISIS in those areas

So, Putin is bombing Syrian rebel forces being supported by the Obama coalition.  When Obama met with Putin for 90 minutes in New York this week you have to wonder what the "pixie dust president"  gave away this time.

About those Syrian migrants/refugees

Germany: Migrants' Rape Epidemic  [via]

Where are the women?

... The increase in sex crimes in Germany is being fueled by the preponderance of Muslim males among the mix of refugees/migrants entering the country.

... At least 80% of the incoming refugees/migrants are Muslim ...

... The asylum seekers are also overwhelmingly male. Of the 411,567 refugees/migrants who have entered the European Union by sea so far this year, 72% have been male, 13% women and 15% children

How does this not give cause for huge security concerns?

A related side note: During the leaders' debate yesterday Stephen Harper said that Mulcair and Trudeau "would throw open our borders to hundreds of thousands of refugees ... no security checks or documents".   This got the excitable Terry Glavin excited; and when Norman Spector tried to calm him down a mini Twitter kerfuffle ensued.

Obama, the reluctant warmonger, punts

Obama Will Seek Syria Vote in Congress:

President Obama stunned the capital and paused his march to war by asking lawmakers, who are not due to return to town for more than a week, to give him authorization before he launches a limited military strike against Syria. ...

 George W. Bush on Syria:

... when Fox's Brian Kilmeade tried to elicit any semblance of an opinion from Bush on intervention in Syria, the former president laughed and brushed him off.

"The president has to make a tough call, Brian," he said. "I know you're trying to subtly rope me into the issues of the day. I refuse to be roped in."

Mark Steyn:  An Accidental War

Perfunctory and ineffectual war-making in Syria is worse than nothing.