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, […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ “Muslims have stifled their own moral development– but we haven’t helped either. And the only way we can do that is to push them toward a moral reckoning. Instead we have bought into their genocidal narrative, enabled their violence and empowered the murderous aspects of their ideology. It’s time that stopped. Lies and flattery […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/apr/1/dear-leader-to-dead-duck/ KIM: Dear Leader to dead duck Gadhafi has provided all of us despots with important lessons This article may not really have been written by the potentate of Pyong-yang. Possibly, Martin Gower, a political consultant living in Asia and author of “Maximum Target” (Noir-East Publishing, 2010), may have had something to do with it. […]
Click here: Money First, Human Rights Last – Maggie’s Farm http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/16884-Money-First,-Human-Rights-Last.html Money First, Human Rights Last The newfound fervor for human rights among liberal supporters of President Obama’s “kinetic” enterprise in Libya might be better turned to Vietnam. Instead, ignoring the persecution of minorities there and ongoing – indeed, increasing – repression of dissent, they […]
