Globe Trot: FIFA corruption scandal could snare the Clinton Foundation

FIFA: When the United States lost its bid for the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, Bill Clinton was reportedly so upset he shattered a mirror. Clinton’s global charity has received $50,000-$100,000 from soccer’s governing body. It could find itself ensnared in the massive U.S. Justice Department investigation launched by the Obama administration with today’s arrests of top FIFA execs in Zurich.

UKRAINE: Both sides in the conflict in eastern Ukraine are torturing and abusing prisoners in what may constitute war crimes.

IRAQ: Vice President Joe Biden called Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to make amends for (mostly likely White House-directed) comments by Defense Secretary Ash Carter that Iraqi forces “showed no will to fight” against Islamic State (IS or ISIS) militants in Ramadi. The spat has given Baghdad more reasons to turn to Tehran, where Gen. Qassim Soleimani, head of its Quds force, has been telling Arab press the obvious: The United States has no “will to fight” either.

“Under the pretext of supporting the Iraqi nation against the IS, their [U.S.] forces are stationed just a few kilometers away from Ramadi and they don’t do a damn thing.”

Remember when the Iraqi Army did fight in Tikrit and the Obama administration threatened to withhold air strikes while Gen. Soleimani was in the battle?

WAR ON TERROR: Yes, President Barack Obama really did say climate change “helped to create the instability in Nigeria that was exploited by the terrorist group Boko Haram” and “helped fuel the early unrest in Syria, which descended into civil war in the heart of the Middle East.”

INDIA: Christian leaders say they have “nothing to celebrate” with the one-year anniversary of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s time in office. Violent attacks by Hindu nationalists against religious minorities are up, and Christian activists say Modi is deepening rather than lessening communal divides.

EX-IM BANK: The Ex-Im Bank’s critics have their economics entirely correct, but they have their geopolitics wrong, writes AEI senior fellow and former Ambassador John Bolton.

ISRAEL: Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced he will resign as special Middle East envoy because, well, he’s not getting anywhere.

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