Tuesday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for February 8th, 2011: The Washington Post: Jennifer Rubin blogs that, in Israel, “dissent is celebrated, not suppressed.” She bolsters this assertion by citing yesterday’s Herzliya Conference panel...

Worth It for Whom?

In his forthcoming new book, former war criminal secretary Donald Rumsfeld says that the war in Iraq has been worth the cost. If only we sent more troops to their death, says Rumsfeld, then it might have helped. Worth the cost for whom? Helped whom? Was the debacle...

Monday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for February 7th, 2011: The Weekly Standard: The Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Benjamin Weinthal blogs that U.S. senators “have reached a breaking point” with Germany’s “recalcitrant...

Friday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for February 4th, 2011: The Washington Post: Foundation for Defense of Democracies board member and Project for the New American Century letter signatory Charles Krauthammer opines on the unrest in Egypt and...

Day of Departure Dawns

As the "Day of Departure" dawns in Cairo, many thousands are gathering in Tahrir Square, and the crowd swells by the minute. Rumors of secret negotiations behind the scenes, with various factions of the opposition trying to make a deal with Mubarak regime, amid news...

Obama’s Egypt Plan: Mubarak-ism Without Mubarak

With the Obama administration trying to impose Mubarak-ism with Mubarak, easing the old lizard-headed dictator out and ushering in Omar Suleiman -- recently appointed Vice President and formerly Egypt's top intelligence official and torturer-in-chief --  there may...

Huffpo Headline Helps Hosni

I see the Huffington Post has another one of their over-sized screaming headlines: "'Day of Departure -- Will Massive March Force Mubarak's Hand?" Yes, that's right, Arianna -- you airhead -- Mubarak will be "forced" to kill, jail, and repress the protesters in Tahrir...

Take the Frum Test

Former Bush speechwriter David "Axis of Evil" Frum, the neocon who today poses as a "moderate" Republican, writes: "There’s a lot of heady talk in the US media right now, from both liberals and conservatives, about the possibilities in Cairo. We all share those...