Archive for August 7, 2009

The sort of thing that George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld didn’t comprehend

August 7, 2009

(For if they did they would never have sent our young men to war with these people.) “Hundreds of thousands of Shiite pilgrims left Karbala on Friday after celebrating the birth of Imam Mahdi, the Shiite saint who is believed to have gone into a state of hiding in the year 873 at the age [...]

General Wald needs to come down to earth.

August 7, 2009

General Wald (U.S. Air Force four-star, retired) in today’s WSJ, There is a Military Option on Iran, defends air and naval strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities. He says that otherwise, “we risk Iranian domination of the oil-rich Persian Gulf, threats to U.S.-allied Arab regimes, the emboldening of radicals in the region, the creation of an [...]


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