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Dennis Prager: Dear Iranians: Don’t Count on America (or Any Country Led by Left)
“The administration has remained as quiet as possible during the Iranian election season and in the days of street protests since Friday’s vote.” – Washington Post , Monday June 15, 2009 “We’re going to withhold comment. … I mean we’re just waiting to see.” – Vice-President Joe Biden “We are monitoring the situation as it [...]
Continue reading...J.G. Thayer: Honoring The Threat
Published Sunday, January 18, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Well, peace has prevailed in Gaza. Or, at least, Israel has said it’s going to stop fighting, and Hamas is renewing its vow to wipe Israel off the face of the earth, which is as close to “peace” as you’re going to get. Expect Hamas to use the breather to fire more rockets into Israel, [...]
Continue reading...John R. Bolton: The Flaws In the Iran Report
Published Tuesday, December 11, 2007 at 7:42 pm
Rarely has a document from the supposedly hidden world of intelligence had such an impact as the National Intelligence Estimate released this week. Rarely has an administration been so unprepared for such an event. And rarely have vehement critics of the “intelligence community” on issues such as Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction reversed themselves so [...]
Continue reading...Jerusalem Post: Dozens died in Syrian-Iranian chemical weapons experiment
Published Tuesday, September 18, 2007 at 8:53 pm
Proof of cooperation between Iran and Syria in the proliferation and development of weapons of mass destruction was brought to light Monday in a Jane’s Defence Weekly report that dozens of Iranian engineers and 15 Syrian officers were killed in a July 23 accident in Syria. According to the report, cited by Channel 10, the [...]
Continue reading...Andrew C. McCarthy: No More Illusions
Published Wednesday, September 5, 2007 at 10:56 am
NRO’s Andrew C. McCarthy reviews fellow NRO contributor, and Iran scholar, Michael Ledeen’s latest book: The Iranian Time Bomb: The Mullah Zealots’ Quest for Destruction. His latest book, The Iranian Time Bomb: The Mullah Zealots’ Quest for Destruction, is released today. It is required reading for anyone — which ought to mean everyone — desirous [...]
Continue reading...Victor Davis Hanson: For now, we should avoid a smoking Tehran
Published Sunday, September 2, 2007 at 11:11 pm
But there are subtle indications that U.S. policy is slowly working, and that a strike now on Iran would be a grave mistake, in every strategic and political sense — not to mention the humanitarian one of harming a populace that may well soon prove to be the most pro-Western in the region. It is [...]
Continue reading...Amir Taheri: Domestic Terror in Iran
Published Monday, August 6, 2007 at 8:11 am
It is early dawn as seven young men are led to the gallows amid shouts of “Allah Akbar” (Allah is the greatest) from a crowd of bearded men as a handful of women, all in hijab, ululate to a high pitch. A few minutes later, the seven are hanged as a mullah shouts: “Alhamd li-Allah” [...]
Continue reading...Mark Steyn: Look who’s holding hostages again
Published Sunday, July 22, 2007 at 8:18 am
How do you feel about the American hostages in Iran? No, not the guys back in the Seventies, the ones being held right now. What? You haven’t heard about them? Odd that, isn’t it? But they’re there. For example, for two months now, Haleh Esfandiari has been detained in Evin prison in Tehran. Esfandiari is [...]
Continue reading...Jed Babbin: Let’s Undo the Concessions to Iran
Published Monday, July 9, 2007 at 11:50 am
There are those such as former Secretary of State James Baker and future-former Secretary of State Rice who believe that by negotiating with the Iranians we can talk them out of their nuclear ambitions and into helping stabilize Iraq. When challenged, negotiation devotees cannot identify one single instance where negotiations have succeeded in changing the [...]
Continue reading...Victor Davis Hanson: Our Enemy’s Attrition
Published Thursday, July 5, 2007 at 8:45 pm
The majority opinion is that the occupation in Iraq has been so bungled that the blowback has ruined American efforts at promoting positive change throughout the Middle East. Perhaps. But for all the justifiable criticism of the Iraqi reconstruction, two truths still remain — the United States is taking an enormous toll on jihadists, and [...]
Continue reading...Phil’s networks
Published Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 12:14 pm
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