David Ignatius has an excellent column on why the revolution in Iran is so important, and why President Obama should stand up and show solidarity with the Iranian people: President Obama was right to speak carefully about the events in Iran during the first week of protest. But it’s time for him to express his [...]
Will Collier notes that Obama is acting like Jimmy Carter in 1979: Rather than offering any crumbs of support to the Iranians who are literally putting their lives on the line for their own freedom, Barack Obama could only manage “deep concerns.” In Obamaland, it’s not as important to offer even moral support to people [...]
Tags: Ahmadinejad, democracy, freedom, Green Revolution, Iran, Mousavi, Obama, Politics
Right now, the people of Iran are engaged in a struggle against tyranny. The Ahmadinejad regime, flagrantly stealing an election, is now on the razor’s edge as hundreds of thousands take the streets to protest the regime and call for democratic reform. Michael J. Totten, already a veteran observer of Middle Eastern affairs has some [...]
Tags: Ahmadinejad, democracy, elections, Iran, Middle East, Mousavi, Politics
Sen. Joe Biden (in an response to Sen. Lieberman’s must-read piece on Democrats and the war) writes on his critique of America’s post-9/11 foreign policy. His arguments are reasonable, but the problem is that the world he describes has little to do with the world in which we all actually live. For example: At the [...]
Tags: Biden, Democrats, foreign policy, Iran
Hassan Nasrallah, the head of the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hizballah has declared a state of open warfare against the Lebanese government. In Beirut, Hezballah terrorists have already engaged in two days of fighting with Lebanese troops. Tony Badran, blogging at Michael Totten’s site offers some trenchant analysis as to what this all means: “What this [...]
Ed Morrisey has a good synopsis of the declassified National Intelligence Estimate on Iran’s nuclear weapons program. (The document itself is available here.) It’s conclusions are quite interesting: We assess with high confidence that until fall 2003, Iranian military entities were working under government direction to develop nuclear weapons. Glenn Reynolds puts it best: “Well, [...]
Tags: intelligence, International Relations, Iran, NIE, nuclear weapons, war on terrorism
Don Surber lays it on the line: we’re winning in Iraq, and the Democrats are stuck in the past: The New York Times devoted a huge hunk of its Page One on Tuesday to the good news of the return to more normal times in Iraq. The story was illustrated with a photo of a [...]