How should we interpret Ahmadinejad’s statements, calling for the destruction of Israel? What weight do they carry? These are the questions that Daniel Koffler attempt to answer in a very insightful article:
Now, none of this suggests for a moment that the narrow semantic values of Ahmaghinejad’s declarations of the impending destruction of the state of [...]
I’m pretty much on the bandwagon of non-interventionism foreign policy. But it seems to me that it be intellectually dishonest to be non-interventionist selectively, with suspicious set of standards. If one decline to condemn china for its Human Rights abuses, or decline to condemn Syria for promoting terrorism based on complete non-intervantion and neutrality than [...]
The only surprising part of this report on the unavoidable failing of the surge in Iraq is the fact that the Washington Post decided to burry it in page 10:
BAGHDAD, March 13 — Iraqi leaders have failed to take advantage of a reduction in violence to make adequate progress toward resolving their political differences, Gen. [...]
Lets assume for argument sake that the reason we invaded Iraq was to spread democracy. We will have the leap of fate that the administration’s doctrine was that the tyranny and lack of hope in the Middle-East are one of the major reason for the radical islamic terrorism and the best strategy to address it [...]
Sharp, accurate and sadly funny:
The Winograd report seems to be getting more coverage in the Lebanese media than the Israeli media. I find that perplexing. In Lebanon, officially, we don’t even recognize that Israel exists. So a commission from a fictitious country that supposedly borders us in the south demonstrates our fondness for fiction. We [...]
Rogel @ January 9, 2008 # 5 Comments
Through Maggie’s Farm I found this very interesting essay (PDF) about the origin of the US involvement in the Middle East. It isn’t short, but it is very good reading. And anyway an essay that state the following, can’t be really bad:
“When it comes to making sense of recent history, the American people, encouraged by [...]
Rogel @ December 3, 2007 # 4 Comments
One have to be impressed by the Iranian abilities to have nuclear weapon by 2009 while not developing it since 2003…