"Do you know how to make God laugh? You tell him your plans." Hari Sheldon – Foudation's Fear
Posted in Blog Post on Jun 15th, 2010
Unreal Blog Physics, Philosophy and Money A Period of Consequences | The Weekly Standard. Bill Kristol and Jamie Fly invoke Churchill to argue that Obama is a poor leader because he won’t attack Iran when told to by the editorial board of the Weekly Standard. They also argue that Iran won’t dare retaliate with a [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jun 10th, 2010
Unreal Blog Physics, Philosophy and Money Iran Warns of ‘Reduced’ Ties With U.N. Inspectors – NYTimes.com. It doesn’t seem like this will be helpful in any conceivable way. Andrew Sullivan passes along this bit on if this will at least dissuade other “rouge” states: Aside from Obama loyalists and administration members, no one thinks that [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 11th, 2010
Unreal Blog Physics, Philosophy and Money Lawyers, Guns and Money: What Leverage Does a Nuke Earn Iran?. Bob Farley from LGM wonders about the real effects of a nuclear Iran. The context here is that a US President might feel constrained when contemplating military action in the Middle East if Iran has the bomb. He [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jun 22nd, 2009
Neda shot by the Basiji police – Iranian Riots and Protests The death of an innocent galvanizes protesters in Iran and across the globe. A man and his teen daughter are watching, but not participating in the protests, when an unseen sniper hits her in the upper chest. It’s hard to watch. She literally bleeds [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 11th, 2008
GOP rivals back tax, spending cuts in SC – Yahoo! News I don’t watch the debates, I don’t have a high enough threshold for nausea. Between the inane stupidity from the moderators and the genuinely stoopid answer, I just can’t take it. In the latest dolt-fest that passes for a GOP debate, all candidates promised [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 9th, 2007
Ezra Klein: “Time to Talk to Iran” A salivating ultra-hawk admits that the recent Iran NIE makes the chances of a strike against Iran extremely unlikely. Thank God.
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 4th, 2007
US: Iran halted weapons program in 2003 – Yahoo! News Wow that’s good news. I guess the president will have to back off the bellicose saber rattling directed at Iran, right? No so much: President George W. Bush said on Tuesday that Iran remains a danger despite a U.S. intelligence report that Tehran halted its [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 16th, 2007
Iran wants Western “apology” after IAEA report – Yahoo! News Iran called on its Western foes on Friday to apologize to the Islamic Republic after the release of a U.N. nuclear agency report which Tehran said showed it had been telling the truth about its atomic plans, according to state media. I think the past [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 29th, 2007
Ezra Klein: Lieberman Helps Destabilize Iraq Take a look. Ezra argues that as long as we antagonize Iran and use bellicosity instead of reasonable diplomacy, Iran has no incentive to help in Iraq. Once Iraq is secure, guess which country is next on the Bush-Chenney hit list?
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 29th, 2007
Bush Wants $50 Billion More for Iraq War – washingtonpost.com The revised supplemental would total about $200 billion, indicating that the cost of the war in Iraq now exceeds $3 billion a week. The bill also covers the far smaller costs of the war in Afghanistan. The Pentagon said recently that the cost of the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 29th, 2007
Iran says ready to fill vacuum in Iraq left by U.S. | Reuters.ca I seem to remember saying sometime ago that the best possible outcome in Iraq would be the creation of a new ally for Iran. It’s hard to believe that the “brilliant” neo-cons in the White House were unable to see that destabilizing [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 23rd, 2007
Hillbilly White Trash: Dims find no support for surrender The Democrats confused the American public’s unhappiness with the way the war was being fought with a desire for surrender and retreat. To be fair this was made easier by the high decibel shrieking from their lunatic fringe. Over the months since the election they have [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 28th, 2007
America’s new path on Iraq: talk to Iran | csmonitor.com It’s strange how often Bush gets forced into doing things he said he would not. Why does he always wait? What is it that leads him to act that way, petulance, immaturity, stubborness or some inflated sense of entitlement? I wish the decider would decide [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 13th, 2007
VOA News – Top American General Disputes US Military Claim on Iran Somehow the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Pete Pace didn’t get the memo. He failed to back the position that EFP’s are sent to Iraq from Iran with the complicity of the Iran government during visit with Aussie PM John [...]
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