Thursday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for February 10th, 2011: The Washington Post: Former Israeli ambassador Sallai Meridor opines on “What Israel fears in Egypt.” He observes, “Within every revolution are some who hope to use democratic...

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Saudi ‘Threat’ to Fund Mubarak

Via Matt Drudge, the Times of London reports: "Saudi Arabia has threatened to prop up President Mubarak if the White House tries to force a swift change of regime in Egypt. In a testy personal telephone call on January 29, King Abdullah told President Obama not to...

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Wednesday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for February 9th, 2011: The Wall Street Journal: Kenneth M. Pollack, director of the Saban center at the Brookings Institution, opines, “Could al Qaeda Hijack Egypt’s Revolution?” and observes, “the...

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The Moral Blindness of Glenn Reynolds

I see Glenn Reynolds, of Instapundit fame, is whining that he did not drop Zeyad, an Iraqi blogger whose cousin was murdered by US soldiers in Iraq -- as I wrote in today's column -- and that “Actually, I played a big role in drawing attention to what happened to...

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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...

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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...

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