from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for February 24th, 2011: National Review Online: Clifford D. May, president of the hawkish Foundation for Defense of Democracies, lashes out at the UN for considering Palestinian requests for a condemnation of Israeli settlement construction. “[W]hy should Palestinians negotiate if they can get the U.N. to [...]
A British judge ordered Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to be extradited to the People’s Republic of Sweden, the socialist paradise where hook ups are a crime: read the judgement here.
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for February 23rd, 2011: The Wall Street Journal: The Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Emanuele Ottolenghi opines, “Arabs’ revolutionary awakening belies Western conventional wisdom in the Middle East,” and repeats a linkage-denying argument that “ordinary Arabs who rose against their regimes didn’t do so because they [...]
Editorial note: Moammar Qadaffi’s Norma Desmond moment has finally arrived. Here is my transcription of his address to the Libyan nation: “ I greet you, the ‘angry youth.’ The agents and cowards try to distort, to cover up the truth, to give a wrong picture of the world, some Arab media are betraying you. And they [...]
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for February 22nd, 2011: The Wall Street Journal: The Journal’s editorial board writes that the Obama administration needs a “new freedom agenda,” and should take notes from George W. Bush’s second inaugural address. They accuse Obama of “[O]ffer[ing] no support for Iranian demonstrators after [the June [...]
These protests are taking on a pattern: first, the people rebel. Then, the regime lashes back with violence. Then, the world reacts in horror and an enraged populace goes all out to rid themselves of the dictator. Finally, the Despot goes on state television and makes a very embarrassing and somewhat crazy speech. That pattern [...]
