The War Party is on the warpath, with two of the biggest Usual Suspects in the lead: "The calls are increasing in Washington for the Obama administration to take new, stronger measures to punish the Libyan government led by Col. Muammar al-Qaddafi for atrocities and...
Comment of the year.
This is how peaceful demonstators are treated in "liberated" Iraq: " Iraqi officials say at least 11 people have been killed and dozens injured in a day of violent clashes across the country between security forces and demonstrators. "At least nine demonstrators were...
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.
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...
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...
Fox News is reporting that the Iranian pro-democracy protest movement is gearing up, inspired by the Egyptian revolution, and so who do they go to for an interview -- "Crown Prince" Reza Pahlavi, son of the hated Shah! UPDATE: There's no video up yet, but here's the...
Are we to be spared nothing? Christiane Amanpour prefaces her interview with Newt Gingrich this morning on her boring Sunday tv program by saying the Newtster is running for president and is fresh from the CPAC conference -- he then bloviates on about how we...
Rather than admit how wrong he was about Egypt -- he was sure the despot was firmly entrenched -- Daniel Larison, The American Conservative's resident foreign policy maven, is berating me for mentioning his prediction that the Egyptian despot would survive: "It’s...
It's amazing how many "expert" know-it-alls, the kind who populate cable tv-land, were not only dead wrong about the outcome of the Egyptian events, but had an ideological axe to grind in objectively supporting a loathesome dictator. Take, for example, Marc...
