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Tag Archives: Iran
Pulling Strings in Foreign Relations
Seems to be an awful lot of “testing” going on. Mutiny in Georgia!!! Iran attacks Kurdish guerillas in Iraq with helicopters Pakistan is melting down!!! Chinese Ships Come Dangerously Close to American Vessel
Posted in Foreign affairs, Keith's Page
Tagged Georgia, Iran, Iraq, kurdish, Pakistan, President Obama, taliban Cheinese, testing
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On Bad Ideas
Seth Weinberger picks up Foreign Policy’s “10 Worst Policy Ideas” for Obama and McCain and adds some commentary. What’s immediately striking to me is how few objections FP offers to McCain’s foreign policy proposals. A peculiar thing, if you’re familiar … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged CAFTA, doctrine, Domestic Politics, foreign policy, Iran, League of Democracies, McCain, NAFTA, Obama, Pakistan, policy ideas, Seth Weinberger, top 10
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A Shattered Idol in the Black Garden
(photo: Rahim Alizadeh) In Verdi’s opera Nabucco –the namesake of the western gas pipeline to Europe that holds the promise of partial independence from Russian energy reliance– the Jewish patriots take the daughter of the Babylonian king hostage, in order … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged Abkhazia, administration, Aliyev, Armenia, Artur Rasizade, Azerbaijani, Azeris, Babylon, Baku, black garden, Boris Yeltsin, Clinton, crypto-fascism, Denena, Dick Cheney, Dmitry Medvedev, Elmar Mammadyarov, energy, ethnic, Europe, Henry Kissinger, hostage, imports, Iran, Jerusalem, Karabakh, King, Kommersant, Medvedev, miltiarism, Moscow, Nabucco, Nabucco pipeline, Nagorno-Karabakh, natural gas, opera, OSI, Persia, petrocracy, Rahim Alizadeh, Russia, security, South Ossetia, Soviet Union, United States, Verdi, Washington, Yagub Eyubov
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Another Iranian Rocket Test, Another Failure?
It’s certainly not unheard of, so was the recent Iranian rocket test really a success? The ever sourced “senior U.S. official” says the rocket wasn’t successful. “The Iranians did not successfully launch the rocket,” a senior U.S. defense official told … Continue reading
Iraqi Army Upgrades
Iraq is buying 140 M1A1 Abrams tanks, along with wide range of other conventional hardware, as it prepares to shift its focus from internal security to defending the borders in a very hostile neighborhood. Iran, in case you’re wondering, can … Continue reading
Blameless are the Bellicose?
(photo: Pavel Trebukov | blog) From the gang who brought you the “because Georgia has invaded its own country we had to attack” rationale for the South Ossetian War, Poland has now apparently “made itself a target” for Russian nuclear … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs
Tagged advocacy, attack, ballistic, ballistic missiles, borders, Boris Yeltsin, frontier war, Georgia, ICBM, international relations, invasion, Iran, militarism, missile defense, nmd, nuclear, nuclear strike, Pavel Trebukov, Poland, propaganda, republics, salvo, security policy, South Ossetia, strike, target, targets, vanity, West
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Russian Strategic Objectives Changing?
Wu Wei believes Russia is now targeting the Nabucco gas pipeline in Georgia…while the Russian NATO envoy argues that strategic objectives are restricted to a South Ossetia protection and warns NATO to stay out. And now Iran gets into the … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged Georgia, Iran, Nabucco, NATO, pipeline, Russia, South Ossetia, war, Wu Wei
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The Khyber Pass: A History of Empire & Invasion, by Paddy Docherty
This book was written entirely in the passive voice. The passive voice was used to avoid assigning causation or personhood to various events. As a result, we learn that places were invaded, people were slaughtered, armies were founded, but no … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Foreign affairs
Tagged Afghanistan, Books, Central Asia, History, Iran, Pakistan
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Her Tenure Was a Monumental Failure
Isn’t it great when our Chief Diplomat doesn’t really see the need for diplomacy?
Fallon and Petraeus sitting in a tree…
I was catching up a bit on my reading, and thanks to McQ found this interview with Admiral Fallon. As McQ points out, the conversation did not go the way Kyra Phillips was trying to steer it. Given our own … Continue reading
Posted in Lance's Page, Military Matters, Notes on the war
Tagged Admiral Fallon, Iran, Iraq, Petraeus, surge
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More Like This Please
I was pleasantly surprised, and mildly irritated, to see that Condi Rice basically called Muqtada al-Sadr a coward while she was in Baghdad recently (via: Instapundit): Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice mocked anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as a coward on … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, MichaelW's Page, Military Matters, Notes on the war
Tagged Condi Rice, GWOT, Iran, Iraq, Muqtada al-Sadr, rhetoric, Terrorism, terrorist cowards, war
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Iran’s War Against Dogs
Video report on the Iranian theocracy’s deranged crackdown on pet dog ownership. Since walking a dog in public is apparently illegal, pet owners are resorting to walking their dogs late at night to avoid detection from the police. According to … Continue reading
Saddam “wanted to pursue all of WMD … to reconstitute his entire WMD program”
I’m not sure that’s “news” to those who have been paying attention the last few years, but now we have another source reported by CNN on Sunday. What makes this source newsworthy and interesting is that it’s FBI agent George … Continue reading
Posted in Chris' Page, Notes on the war
Tagged george piro, interrogation, Iran, Iraq, psychology, saddam, sanctions, wmds
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Reflections on Fred
This was a post better suited for yesterday and Fred’s withdrawal, but I suppose I let myself get distracted without posting it. It should go without saying that while I was unsurprised by the event, it was nevertheless disappointing. But … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008
Tagged 2008, campaign, election, Fred Thompson, Iran, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, pessimism, political, politicians, Republican, social security
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Iranian President’s Public Spanking
FoxNews, fair and balanced. Well, one can add snarky to that tag line for the headline above. Not that I disagree with it, or think we shouldn’t treat some people to a certain amount of disrespect. Just another straw on … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Keith's Page
Tagged Agmadinejad, downfall, Iran, spanking
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Toward a New Italian Left
Here’s a fascinating little article on Walter Veltroni, the mayor of Rome and the new leading light of the Italian Left. Vetroni has worked to create a more moderate and flexible social democratic political culture in Italy. Modeling his new … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged American, Democratic Party, Democrats, extremism, ideology, Iran, Italy, moderation, socialism, Third Way, Tony Blair, Walter Veltroni
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The Glenn Greenwald Carnival of Fisking has some new entries
First, let us all go and see Eric Scheie delve into the sock drawer and how the moth eaten brain now, amongst all the other charges, believes Glenn Reynolds is a racist! The puppy blending, mass murder and nuclear holocaust … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Glenn Greenwald's Carnival of Fisking, Humor, Lance's Page, Military Matters, Race
Tagged , Glenn Greenwald, homophobia, Hormuz, Instapundit, Iran, racism
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European tax collections funding Hamas?
At Harry’s place we see further reason to despise Brussel’s bureaucrats.
Frank Miller’s Geostrategic Theory
Frank Lovece sat down with Frank Miller for Newsday to discuss his upcoming film The Spirit. Toward the end of it Lovece asked Miller about remarks he’d made in 2007 in support of the Iraq War, and offered him an … Continue reading →