You Can’t Have Your Cake…Etc., Etc.
As the impact of the Iran NIE sinks in, it is apparent that some folks are so set on absolving Iran that they ignore the ‘high certainty’ of the estimate that Iran DID, in fact, have a nuclear weapons...
View ArticleWhy The Change On Iran? Some Details Emerge
Good piece from David Sanger in this morning’s NY Times on the events that led up to the changed NIE on Iran’s nuclear ambitions: American intelligence agencies reversed their view about the status of...
View ArticleWar With Iran Is Immiment – Or Maybe Not
I’m late on highlighting this, but with the resignation of Admiral Fallon, top military man in the Middle East, last week, tongues started wagging again about our plans re:Iran. Widely quoted was this...
View ArticleOne Of Those Days…
Lots of news today, but nothing that excites me to comment much. Hillary Clinton to engage Iran and Syria? Fine, but as we’ve seen from North Korea, nations with bad intentions can play nations with...
View ArticleYou Gotta Hand It To That Mahmoud Ahmadinejad…
…he’s one classy individual! I mean, what a gesture, attacking Israel for aggression “under the pretext of Nazi suffering” on the day that Jewish communities mark the Holocaust. Kudos to the European...
View ArticleMy Take On The Obama Speech
First of all, it was a major speech, obviously. Some notable bullet points: (1) Obama did not use the word terrorism or any variant in the entirety of the speech. That can only be deliberate, one...
View ArticleWho REALLY Won Iran’s Election?
The plain fact is, I don’t know. I strongly doubt Ahmadinejad got 63% of the vote. Voices on the right, yes, but also voices on the left such as Roger Cohen and Juan Cole are expressing grave doubts...
View ArticleWhat’s Behind Obama’s Timid Response to the Iranian Election?
John Dickerson says it’s reluctance to jeopardize diplomacy aimed at solving the nuclear issue, a sentiment Robert Kagan echoes…but Fred Kaplan says enough: Given the near-certainty that Iran’s...
View ArticleThe End of an Illusion
Apologists for Iran have long insisted that there is no proof that Iran has bad intentions for its nuclear program, that it is peaceful, that those who say otherwise are engaging in the sequel to the...
View ArticleMore Worrying News From Iran
When staff at the United Nations, an organization known far more for appeasement than confrontation, are more hawkish than even the Bush Administration was on Iran, you know we are getting very near...
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