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...

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for February 25th, 2011: The Weekly Standard: Jaime Daremblum, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, blogs on the “underreported news” that the U.S. government is investigating “whether Venezuela recently...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for February 18th, 2011: The Weekly Standard: Hudson Institute Visiting Fellow Lee Smith blogs on the Iranian plan to send two naval ships through the Suez Canal, and observes that the Iranians are...