As the war in Iraq drags on, less and less attention is being payed to the daily carnage there.
In addition to the hundreds of Iraqis dying every week, an average of three American troops are dying every day there. In the first 24 days of this month, 76 GIs have lost their lives.
A total of 2,105 US troops have died in Iraq since the invasion.
Frequent contributor Jorge Hirsch writes:
I hope people will read these documents and make their own evaluations. I hope the Europeans and the United States will respond to Iran’s points with equally clear, factual information and levelheaded arguments that the rest of the world can understand, rather than with real bombshells.
Since I could not find the Iran NYT ad elsewhere on the Web, it is reproduced verbatim below.
Arthur Silber has a thorough treatment of the latest in the Padilla case. There’s good news and bad news:
Frequent contributor Jorge Hirsch writes:
“Iran dropped a bombshell with a full-page ad in last Friday’s New York Times (Nov. 18, 2005, p. A11). It presents clear factual information and levelheaded arguments on what kind of nuclear program Iran is pursuing and why, and why the European offer to Iran of August 2005 is not acceptable to Iran. Iran’s ad has information that I found illuminating, including the reasons for Iran’s desire for nuclear energy, the reasons given by Iran for why they did not disclose their program for many years, details of the negotiating process started in 2003, and details of Iran’s proposals aimed at providing reassurance that it is not pursuing nuclear weapons.
“I hope people will read these documents and make their own evaluations. I hope the Europeans and the United States will respond to Iran’s points with equally clear, factual information and levelheaded arguments that the rest of the world can understand, rather than with real bombshells.
“Since I could not find the Iran NYT ad elsewhere on the Web, it is reproduced verbatim below.” Continue reading “Are Iran’s Arguments Sound?”
With the 10th anniversary of the Dayton Peace Accords yesterday, every liar, calumnist and imbecile in the mainstream media has felt the need to flap their gums about it, preferably in the context of paeans to American interventionism, empire and “commitment.” In the same breath that praises the Clintonian Empire for ending the “genocide” in Bosnia, they parrot the current party line that Dayton needs to be revised and abolished, because it simply doesn’t work any more.
“Stephen Schwartz” (a.k.a. Suleyman Ahmad), that old champion of the Islamic cause, goes a step further, claiming that Dayton was unfair (“not felicitous,” to use his flowery prose) to the Muslims of Bosnia. Under its provisions, the 45% (sic!) “plurality”saw “Muslim Bosnia” (sic) reduced to 28% of the country’s territory, just as they “had created a real army that was winning their land back.”
Most of his article in yesterday’s online “Weekly Standard” is the standard prattle of Muslim (or is it “Bosniak”? Ahmad himself doesn’t use the term, strangely enough) apologists: Croatia and Serbia conspired to carve up Bosnia, and were held off only by the lone efforts of heroic and virtuous Alija Izetbegovic; Britain, France and Russia conspired to help the Serb “aggressors” and stop the military intervention on the Muslim side, the only just solution to the war; etc. Continue reading “Delirious Dayton Drivel”
You’ll recall that Jonah Goldberg recently declared anyone who accuses Bush of lying about prewar intelligence “paranoid,” even if Bush did lie. I wonder what Jonah thinks of his ideological chums Michelle Malkin and Glenn Reynolds, who, along with a slew of other imbeciles, were absolutely positive that a momentary live glitch on CNN was evidence of secret al-Qaeda sympathies at the network. I suspect he would say that at least they’re paranoid about something important.
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