The Arab Revolt and U.S. Interests A U.S. strategy has to begin by distinguishing between friends and enemies. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703806304576233103653662410.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop As a general rule, Middle Eastern regimes divide into two types: the bad—and the bad. To understand where the American interest lies in this season of Arab revolt, it’s important to know the difference. We don’t […]
http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2011/04/04/robert-baer-koran-inspired-libyan-rebels-%E2%80%9Cas-likely-to-attack-the-cia-as-qaddafi%E2%80%9D/ Robert Baer: Koran-inspired Libyan rebels “as likely to attack the CIA as Qaddafi” Baer’s essentials of the Libyan “freedom fighters” Former CIA operative Robert Baer had extensive hands-on experience in Libya during his career. Here is Baer’s assessment of the Libyan “freedom fighters” from a recent CNN interview [2], which features his acknowledgments of […]
Stamp of approval? Alan Fraser http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/04/stamp_of_approval.html MARY LASKER ACTUALLY DESERVES A STAMP…SHE WAS A CHAMPION OF MEDICAL INNOVATION AND RESEARCH AND A GREAT PHILANTHROPIST SEE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Lasker…RSK AND RICHARD WRIGHT IS ACCEPTABLE…A FINE GROUNDBREAKING NOVELIST…. A civilization that exalts and celebrates its rock-stars and movie actors over its soldiers and important leaders has forgotten obvious things […]
Rethinking the End Game http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/04/rethinking_the_end_game.html By Lori Lowenthal Marcus and Asaf Romirowsky As the world watches the Arab Spring unfold, few pundits are foolish enough to predict what will be blooming when the rains cease. Yes, there are fervent hopes that freedom, dignity and democracy will blossom, but they are tempered with fears that what […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703712504576240930813440532.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_opinion Now the U.N. author says he didn’t have the facts when he accused Israel of war crimes in Gaza. AS WE USED TO SAY IN THE BRONX: HE SHOULD TAKE A LONG WALK OFF A SHORT PIER…..RSK Regrets, Richard Goldstone has a few, if you can believe it. The principal author of the U.N. […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703806304576236773023662808.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_BelowLEFTSecond Jimmy Carter Lobbies for Cuban Spies Why lend legitimacy to the Castro brothers? They say that Cuba is a place where time stands still and it certainly seemed that way last week when Jimmy Carter arrived in Havana to fraternize with the Castros. The image of the 86-year-old American ex-president wearing a wide smile […]
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9MC914O0&show_article=1 MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) – A pair of suicide bombers struck a shrine in Pakistan Sunday, killing 30 people gathered there and pressing a campaign of attacks against places of worship that extremists consider un-Islamic, officials said. The practice of praying, singing and meditating at the shrines of holy men is widespread and much loved […]
HAVE YOU NOTICED HOW EVERY TIME ISRAEL RESPONDS TO ROCKET FIRE, OUTRIGHT CARNAGE, TERRORISM, BY SHOOTING BACK THE RESPONSE IS ALWAYS CALLED “DISPROPORTIONATE”????…AND SOMETHING ELSE….WHEN THEY BUILD AN APARTMENT OR ADD A BATHROOM TO AN EXISTING VILLA IN A “SETTLEMENT” IT IS CALLED PROVOCATIVE…. AP Photo/Rahmat GulAn Afghan protestor beats a burning effigy of U.S. […]
Arab Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most By Mark Steyn http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/263729/arab-spring-can-really-hang-you-most-mark-steyn “……Libya will be yet another in America’s six-decade-long pantheon of unwon wars. And so Arab spring falls back to Afghan winter, and another decade of ineffectual “nation”-building and “peace”-keeping by transnational sitting ducks for ever more ravenous predators.” The Tunisians got rid […]
http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/ In an op-ed for ynetnews.com Yoram Ettinger examines an intriguing phenomenon – the Arabs who, even while denouncing Israel, prefer to reside there rather than under Palestinian control. “For example,” he tells us, “Israeli ID cards have been sought by senior PLO and Hamas officials and their relatives, such as the three sisters of Ismail Haniyeh, […]
