Gordon Chang isn’t being metaphorical:
Keeping the ultimate weapon out of the hands of the Iranians is, as they say, “a question of civilization.” After all, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has made himself famous for his chatter about “wiping Israel off the map,” and Hassan Abassi, a senior member of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards, once said, [...]
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Larry Summers makes the case for free trade. (HT: Greg Mankiw)
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Today the administration briefs Congress on the Israeli raid on Syria, confirming what almost everyone has guessed: that this was an attack on a nuclear reactor capable of producing weapons-grade plutonium. Evidently the Israelis videotaped inside the facility (nice intelligence work!) and confirmed the presence of North Koreans, helping to construct a reactor of the [...]
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The University of Texas at Austin, the University of California at Berkeley, and Stanford University have entered into a partnership with Saudi Arabia on King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, a graduate-level institution being constructed in Dhahran. The University of Connecticut, Michigan State University, Rochester Institute of Technology, Boston University, and the University [...]
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Shrinkwrapped reviews evidence of an impending Middle East war, but finds reasons for optimism. Caroline Glick doesn’t. I share her bafflement at the Bush administration’s failure to articulate what is really going on, and what has been going on for the past five years:
WHAT IS most striking about the Bush administration’s unwillingness to [...]
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Posted in Religion, foreign policy, tagged Iran on March 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“Death to Ahmadinejad!” shout Iranian protestors, while, in other news, a million Iranians are estimated to have converted to Christianity within the last couple of years.
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Posted in Cats, foreign policy, tagged Cats, China, Tibet on March 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Protests are spreading throughout China.
And, China’s treatment of cats is worth its own set of protests.
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The European Union is pulling out of northern Kosovo, an area that is mostly ethnically Serbian.
The problem is that the Serbs are taking the cue from the Kosovars. If Kosovo can split from Serbia why can’t Serbian regions split from Kosovo?
It’s a good question.
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Paul Mirengoff:
Nor does Obama’s magic end at our borders. Last night, he said he would solve our immigration problem in part by improving the economy of Mexico to the point that illegal immigrants will have no need or desire to enter the paradise Obama will create here.
Most magically of all, Obama will fix Mexico’s economy [...]
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Anti-Serbian hate speech from Stephen Schwartz. I defend his right to say it, as well as my right to denounce it as an exemplar of vile bigotry. Consider:
Serbs …. revel in their bravery when it comes to murdering children and old people….
Serbs do not change.
Serbs hate Muslims because Muslims wash before praying.
Serbs are [...]
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