We Are So Screwed
Hillary Clinton via YNnet: US has no plan for military action against Iran:
“Obviously, we don’t want Iran to become a nuclear weapons power, but we are not planning anything other than going for sanctions,” she told al-Arabiya television.
In other words, Barack and Hillary have taken the military option off the table and [...]
Will Iran be stopped?
At NRO’s Media blog, Tom Gross points out that the New York Times for the first time runs a column explicitly advocating the American bombing of Iran’s nuclear program (and the “sooner the better” it says). The column is by Alan Kuperman, the director of the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Program at the University of [...]
White House Statement on Iran
Breaking news: White House seems to toughen stance on Iran in new statement. Could the boss be right–see advance copy of next week’s editorial, just posted–that Obama’s Nobel speech could be a pivot point with respect to Iran policy? Is military action next year out of the question?
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Obama’s message to the Taliban and Al-Qaeda: ‘We’ll be gone soon’
As soon as I saw the title of Ken Taylor’s post at The Minority Report on Obama’s speech last night, I couldn’t help but link to it. After all, how better to sum up Obama’s speech when it’s the only substantive thing said - everything else being like he himself, all fluff and no substance, [...]
Barack the Magic Statesman
Thank goodness we have such an eloquent spokesman for America’s foreign policy! At last, we see the brave new world of hope and change wrought by Barack H. Obama. (And it has such people in it.)
Now that he has, for all practical purposes, taken off the table any military action against Iran — [...]
Retreat first
The editors of the Washington Post examine the “Pakistan First” policy being championed by Vice President Biden in response to the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan. Under this approach, the U.S. would put Afghanistan on the “back burner” and attack al Qaeda targets in Pakistan with drones or special forces, while backing the government [...]
