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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Monday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for February 7th, 2011: The Weekly Standard: The Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Benjamin Weinthal blogs that U.S. senators “have reached a breaking point” with Germany’s “recalcitrant...

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Friday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for February 4th, 2011: The Washington Post: Foundation for Defense of Democracies board member and Project for the New American Century letter signatory Charles Krauthammer opines on the unrest in Egypt and...

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Day of Departure Dawns

As the "Day of Departure" dawns in Cairo, many thousands are gathering in Tahrir Square, and the crowd swells by the minute. Rumors of secret negotiations behind the scenes, with various factions of the opposition trying to make a deal with Mubarak regime, amid news...

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