from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for February 14th, 2011: The Washington Post: On her “Right Turn†blog, Jennifer Rubin asks “Will Obama now reverse course on Iran?†“We should re-evaluate the ongoing, useless talks with the...
Ron Paul supporters appear to be dominating this conservative event. Yesterday, Cheney and Rumsfeld were booed with calls of "Where's Bin Laden" "murdering scum," and "draft dodger." Here's Ron Paul's speech: Immediately after the speech, Ron was interviewed by Wolf...
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...
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for February 11th, 2011: The Weekly Standard: Stephen Schwartz writes on “Iran’s Conspiracy Industry†and observes that “conspiracy theories have long flourished in the lands of Islam.†Schwartz...
The fall of Hosni Mubarak isn't just an occasion to cheer the demise of a dictatorship, it's also a golden opportunity to celebrate the downfall of all-too-many "experts" whose complacency, deference to power, and complete ignorance of the situation on the ground led...
Poor Glenn Reynolds, he's trying mightily to recreate the days when his opinion meant something, but that was long ago and far away and the old war-blogger doesn't have the good sense to fade away: he's still in there pitching pernicious memes: "MUBARAK has resigned....
To predict a dictator's downfall in the evening, and to wake up to his resignation is to live in a pundit's paradise, and that's precisely where I am today. As I said in this morning's column: "Mubarak, as I said a while back, is finished. His Norma Desmond moment...
Youthful libertarians at the CPAC conference, now going on in Washington, ambush Dick Cheney -- who's getting a "Defender of the Constiution" award! -- calling him a "war criminal" as the neocons chant "USA USA!!" in their usual "four-legs-good-two-legs-bad" style....
Hosni Mubarak is scheduled to speak to the Egyptian people in the next ten minutes, and speculation is rife that he's going to be announcing his effective resignation. This promises to be a Nixonian moment -- remember "You won't have Dick Nixon to kick around...
