Archived Articles by Larry Kelley
A compilation of all Larry Kelley’s published articles, blog posts and opinions.
Obama’s Failure in Iraq Has Increased Rebellion, Civil War and Anarchy
To say that President Obama has squandered the painful gains America won over the last decade in two, bloody Middle Eastern wars is something like saying Jimmy Carter was not quite as a good a president as George Washington or Ronald Reagan, for that matter. It would be a gross [...]
The Religion of Deception – Treachery is Us!
The Quran—Image src: http://goo.gl/EZpLM Take not the unbelievers for friends.. If any do that, in nothing will there be help from Allah. (The Qur’an, surah 3, verse 28) In my new book, Lessons from Fallen Civilizations – Can a Bankrupt America Survive the Current Islamic Threat, the reader [...]
An Updated Bush Doctrine and the Coming War with Iran
On August 11, 106 AD, the Roman legions under the Emperor Trajan (98-117 AD), conquered the Kingdom of Dacia, located on the eastern side of the Danube in what is today, Romania. The Romans besieged the capital and destroyed it. The Dacian king, Decebalus, and a few of his loyalists [...]
The New Axis of Evil and News from the Front
In my book, Lessons From Fallen Civilizations, I write: By 1500, the Sunni branch of Islam, administered by the Ottomans, ruled lands from Syria and Iraq, across the Maghreb to the Atlantic. And on the European mainland, it ruled all of Greece and the Balkans. By 1529, the Ottomans began [...]
The Retreat Doctrine and Other News from the Front
The Spanish Reconquista In AD 732, exactly one hundred years after Muhammad’s death, Charlemagne’s Grandfather, the Frankish warlord, Charles Martel, stopped the northwestern advance of Islam in the French countryside at a battle fought near the small city of Poitiers. In so doing, historians believe that he saved Western Christendom. Had [...]
Losing the Middle East and News from the Front
On May 29, 1453, Constantinople, the last great city of the Eastern Roman Empire, fell to the armies of Turkish Sultan, Mehmet II. A description of that day survives—a diary of a Venetian ship’s doctor, Nicolo Barbaro. He describes the last day of Byzantine Emperor, Constantine XI, who fought beside [...]