Remembering Drummer Lee Rigby; Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Corps of Drums march through town

This is the unit the murdered soldier Lee Rigby belonged to before being attacked on these very streets.
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It wasn't all dress parades for these men: 

The troops of the RRF mourn Lee Rigby

Many more images of this proud unit of the British Army here.

Charles Krauthammer; Syria: America Sidelined

After Iraq, Obama wasted a golden opportunity to keep a presence in the region.

Charles Krauthammer  "The war in Syria, started by locals, is now a regional conflict, the meeting ground of two warring blocs. On one side, the radical Shiite bloc led by Iran, which overflies Iraq to supply Bashar Assad and sends Hezbollah to fight for him. Behind them lies Russia, which has stationed ships offshore, provided the regime with tons of weaponry, and essentially claimed Syria as a Russian protectorate.
"And on the other side are the Sunni Gulf states terrified of Iranian hegemony (territorial and soon nuclear); non-Arab Turkey, now convulsed by an internal uprising; and fragile Jordan, dragged in by geography.
"And behind them? No one."

Lets have no more snide comments about the French being "surrender monkeys"

More and more nations pay the price for a timid US president

 

The world becomes more unstable and hostile because of a feckless, guilt-ridden US president who has been taught to hate American power. This happens when liberals want the US to be liked instead of respected. Entities around the world that oppose us have become ascendant and future administrations will have Obama's mess to inherit. TD
 

Related to the subject: Moscow sets up Russian Golan brigade, warns Israel Sunnis plus al Qaeda are bigger threat than Assad   "DEBKAfile notes that this was the first time any Russian official had mentioned the unmentionable: a possible future turn in the wheel of the Syrian conflict that would oust Assad and bring his foes, the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood and al Qaeda, to power in Damascus."

Taliban 'Embassy' Is a Surrender by Obama  "The decision by the Taliban to hoist their own "Islamic Emirate" flag above what was supposed to be just a "political office" in Doha, Qatar is more than just an embarrassment for President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, and more than a stumbling block in negotiations over U.S. withdrawal from the country. Rather, the provocative gesture unmasks that withdrawal for what it is: a surrender, and a betrayal of the war against terror."  Obama's negotiating partners

Counterterrorism efforts have been weakened by the administration’s policy of dissociating Islam from al Qaeda and other Islamist terrorism