May 07 2011

Everybody smoke

The real meaning of Bin Laden’s death

By Johann Hari, Friday, 6 May 2011 … Scramble the film backwards. Rewind. Go back to the day 10 years ago when the air here in Manhattan was thick with ash and Osama…  [more]

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May 07 2011

Been there, done that

Good advice. Been there; done that (1957).  Seemed like a good idea at the time, according to Eisenhower and two good old Presbyterian Princetonians named Dulles. Bad idea, however.  We don’t do intervention very well. Result: more harm than good!  …  [more]

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May 05 2011

Amir Taheri: Persian prognosticators

…and presidential priorities.

Note:  Amir Taheri is a contributing editor for FamilySecurityMatters.org and writes for the NY Post and the Wall Street Journal (detect a slight, right-ward slant here?).  His latest book is The Persian Night: Iran Under …  [more]

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May 02 2011

Mirror, mirror

Stop blaming Israel for every grievance in the Middle East

By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Monday, 2 May 2011 … First came the Arab spring (followed, in some lands, by the harshest of winters) and now Hamas and Fatah have signed a…  [more]

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May 02 2011

Close encounters

A close encounter with the man who shook the world

By Robert Fisk, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 … One hot evening in late June 1996, the telephone on my desk in Beirut rang with one of the more extraordinary messages…  [more]

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May 02 2011

Is this what we wanted?

How the U.S. ‘Won’: Torture, Secret Prisons

By Jack Stuef, 3:09 pm May 2, 2011 … In the midst of all the celebrations that good finally defeated evil yesterday, there is this fact: the U.S. got the leads that allowed…  [more]

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May 01 2011

Impeached, or something

Daily Mail Launches Weird Attack On Obama’s Father

By Jason Linkins, 04/29/11 11:40 AM ET … Here’s a clever thing the the U.K.’s Daily Mail did in response to the release of President Barack Obama’s long-form birth certificate: a brief…  [more]

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