Remember all those liberals parroting the “democracy won’t work in the Middle East” conventional wisdom during an eight-year tantrum against George W Bush? Well, it seems those same liberals are now cheering on the democracy advocates demonstrating throughout the Greater Middle East...
Associated Press reported today that SecDef Robert Gates sent a three-page memo to National Security Advisor General James Jones [USMC] noting that the United States has no “nimble long-term plan for dealing with Iran’s nuclear program”, meaning that with the obvious failure of diplomacy, there is no...
The killing of seven intelligence officers in Khost [Afghanistan] by a double agent brings to the fore the problems we are having with intelligence, in general, and human intelligence (HUMINT), in particular. Intelligence, general or HUMINT, is a mucky undertaking that, by necessity, cannot be officially...
Last time, I talked about the gambit being run by the US (holding out international gasoline sanctions against Tehran’s continued unsupervised nuclear activity) and Iran’s response (kidnapping of three Americans and the occupation of a southern Iraqi oil well). Now, let’s look at the...
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I’ve discussed Iran’s nuclear weapons program in these pages before, but an incident occurred early Friday that has been under-reported. A small unit of special operators entered southern Iraq and occupied an oil well in an area that Iran claims was never returned after the Iran-Iraq War...
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