Posted in Politics, terrorism, war, tagged Iran, Israel on May 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Paul Mirengoff dissects the Democrats’ “politics of fear” charge, showing that it is (a) question-begging and (b) baseless.
I find it puzzling that people dismiss talk of terrorism as well as the threat from Iran and its quest for nuclear weapons, its much-expressed hatred of Israel, and its conduct of war by proxy as “the politics [...]
Posted in Politics, terrorism, war on May 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One of the things that bothers me about the current state of our politics is the lack of seriousness we display in the war on terror. This morning, evidence for this is all around. Thirty-six detainees at Guantanamo have been released only to return to jihad; one alum recently blew himself and four [...]
Posted in Politics, foreign policy, terrorism, war, tagged nuclear weapons, Obama on May 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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, [...]
Posted in Politics, terrorism, war, tagged Iran, North Korea, nuclear weapons, Syria on April 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Israel bombed the nuclear reactor under construction in Syria to prevent the Syrians and the terrorist groups they sponsor from acquiring nuclear weapons. Will anyone do the same to Iran? Alisdair Palmer argues in favor of such a course:
When the governments trying to acquire the technology for making nuclear bombs are known to train and [...]
Posted in terrorism, war, tagged Iran, Israel, nuclear weapons, Syria, terrorism on April 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Wretchard reflects on the significance of the Syrian nuclear reactor destroyed by Israel. The UN seems to have been unaware of it:
First the Al Kibar reactor, unlike Iraq’s Osirak, was designed to be covert from first to last. Did the IAEA at any time have any definite knowledge of Al Kibar? If it so, did [...]
Posted in foreign policy, war, tagged Middle East, war on April 8, 2008 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in war, tagged WMD on April 8, 2008 | No Comments »
The Jerusalem Post reports that an upcoming, joint US-Israeli report will reveal that Saddam’s weapons were moved to Syria.
That’s what I’ve thought most likely all along. He had a year in which to do it; massive truck convoys from Iraq to Syria were observed and aerially photographed. We’ll see.
Posted in war, tagged Iraq, war on March 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Gateway Pundit uses graphics to relate U. S. military deaths in Iraq to those of various battles from World War II and Korea. It’s also instructive to compare battles from earlier eras of history: the 16th-19th centuries for example: 30,000 dead at Marignan in two days in 1515, 38,000 dead in one day at [...]
Posted in Europe, Politics, national security, war, tagged Europe, immigration, Kosovo, self-determination, war on February 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
David Warren:
My rule of thumb, on wars, is to fight them with your enemies, when absolutely necessary; but never with your friends, and in particular, never in order to create new enemies.
It is worth thinking carefully about the Clinton-Bush policy in the Balkans, which so far has led to the alienation of Russia, the creation [...]
Posted in war, tagged atomic weapons, Iran on February 22, 2008 | No Comments »
The European Commission Joint Research Centre has run simulations indicating that Iran may have enough fissile material to construct an atomic bomb by year end. This contrasts sharply with the vaunted National Intelligence Estimate, which concluded that Iran was unlikely to have enough nuclear material until sometime between 2010 and 2015.
