Quiet: smart diplomacy at work
Either there is no urgency involving Iran’s work on a nuclear weapon, or the Obama administration has reconciled itself to the mullahs’ completion of the project. AFP reports:
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday it could take months for new UN sanctions against Iran, as she prepared for talks in Argentina and Brazil about [...]
Diplomacy Fail, XXII
From the AP : “Saudi Official Cool to New Sanctions on Iran.”
Prince Saud al-Faisal told a news conference in the Saudi capital late Monday that the threat posed by Iran’s nuclear ambitions demands a more immediate solution than sanctions. He described sanctions as a long-term solution, and he said the threat is more pressing. . [...]
Chatting up the taliban
In his State of the Union address, President Obama claimed that the U.S. had basically ignored the situation in Afghanistan during the 1990s. But as Michael Rubin shows in a disturbing article in Commentary, Obama’s account, as is so often the case when the president dabbles in history, is not correct. Rather, [...]
The President on Haiti: "The First Waves of our Rescue and Relief Workers are on the Ground and at Work"
This morning the President gave another update relief efforts in Haiti, promising the people of Haiti that "you will not be forsaken; you will not be forgotten." Again, while the US Government does all it can, you can also help immediately by donating to the international fund of the Red Cross to assist the relief [...]
Obama’s Team Doesn’t Buy the 2007 NIE on Iran’s Nuclear Program
The New York Times reports:
Mr. Obama’s top advisers say they no longer believe the key finding of a much disputed National Intelligence Estimate about Iran, published a year before President George W. Bush left office, which said that Iranian scientists ended all work on designing a nuclear warhead in late 2003.
After reviewing new documents that [...]
(Video) Krauthammer’s Take on Dear Leader’s Iran Statement
Krauthammer, on Fox News Special Report, ripped Barack Obama for his “flaccid, meaningless” words on the Iranian freedom protests:
“The regime is weakening. This is a hinge in history. Everything in the region with change if the regime is changed. Obama ought to be strong out there in saying it’s an illegitimate government; we stand shoulder [...]
