Forgetting Past Mistakes is to Repeat Them
Despite reports of politically motivated arrests, police brutality, and at least one death, hundreds of thousands of people marched in Tehran, Iran today in protest over what they believe to be the fraudulent re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Barack Obama’s support for Iranians who want nothing more than to free themselves from tyranny should be firm and unwavering. Instead he’s failed to give the audacity of hope to an entire country.
The Jerusalem Post says that a "senior member" of President Bush’s posse said that Bush and Dick Cheney said that military action against Iran is warranted. In other news, the Chicago Cubs will win the World Series this year and al Qaeda has issued a public statement saying that the terrorist network is laying down…
Politics is exactly what Barack Obama and others on the left are playing at when they protest, overmuch, that President Bush attacked the presumptive Democratic nominee when he delivered a much-needed slap in the face to those who would look away from terrorism rather than face the threat directly. Dana Perino had to love delivering…
First the Danes foiled a conspiracy to murder journalists and artists linked to the Mohammed cartoons. Then, to prove the power of free speech, Danish (and other) newspapers reprinted the images. Now Danish legislators have refused Iran’s demand that they condemn re-publication. A group of Danish lawmakers has canceled a trip to Iran because Tehran…
And if that face doesn’t inspire trust I don’t know whose possibly could! The Guardian reports that, because of the clamor for his services throughout America, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has generously offered to act as an election monitor during the Great Satan’s 2008 presidential election: “If the White House officials allow us to be present…
As Michael said earlier, there are some really good blogs on the list of the 2007 Web Logs award that are worth checking out. I was browsing the contentions blog at Commentary Magazine and happened upon this gem by John Podhoretz and his follow-up about a speech given by Joe Lieberman yesterday. Wow. I don’t…
From the NY Times – fifteen years ago – but still highly relevant given recent events: The Foreign Ministers of Turkey, Iran and Syria condemned the creation of a de facto Kurdish state in northern Iraq today and warned Kurdish leaders that they would not allow it to lead to the partition of the country. “We…
Jimmy Carter says that the United States tortures prisoners in violation of international law. From CNN: “I don’t think it. I know it,” Carter told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “Our country for the first time in my life time has abandoned the basic principle of human rights,” Carter said. “We’ve said that the Geneva Conventions do…
In the U.K., the Guardian reports that John Bolton, the former U.S ambassador to the United Nations, told Tory delegates that “he saw no alternative to a pre-emptive strike on suspected nuclear facilities in the country”. More: Mr Bolton, who was addressing a fringe meeting organised by Lord (Michael) Ancram, said that the Iranian president,…
I absolutely had to preserve this for posterity! Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune h/t The Moderate Voice