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September 2012

LAWS, LEGALIAM AND LYING ABOUT LIBYA: ANDREW McCARTHY

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/321057/law-legalisms-and-lying-about-libya-andrew-c-mccarthy Everything Mark says here about the audacious silence of the State Department is exactly right. I write only to add a couple of points about his apt distinction between “laws” and “legalisms.” First, let’s pretend for argument’s sake that the paramount consideration in Libya were the criminal investigation rather than national security and political […]

Netanyahu Blasts Those Who Think Military Strike Worse Than Nuclear Iran: ‘New Standard for Human Stupidity’….see note

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/netanyahu-blasts-those-who-think-military-strike-worse-than-nuclear-iran-new-standard-for-human-stupidity/ Can you just imagine those rampaging savages if they had nukes? rsk Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed Iran’s nuclear ambitions during an interview with NBC’s David Gregory recently, and had some harsh words for those who don’t recognize the threat a nuclear Iran poses. When Gregory asked Netanyahu why a policy of containment […]

HILEL HALKIN: ISRAEL’S CIVILIAN-MILITARY DIVIDE A REVIEW

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443819404577635343206260340.html Have you ever wondered why Iran, after halting (according to Western intelligence reports) its nuclear weapons program in 2003, resumed it (according to more such reports) by 2005? Patrick Tyler, a former New York Times foreign correspondent, thinks he knows. It wasn’t because the initial shock of the American invasion of Iraq had worn […]