Why We’re Not Going to War with Iran

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  January 20th at 05:30 PM  | 

“U.S. Ponders Ways to Use Force on Iran” “Here’s How the U.S. Could Invade Iran” “U.S. Said Set to Attack Iran” “Does [the U.S. President] Plan to Invade Iran?” “Saudis Deny U.S. Planned to Attack Iranian Oilfields” “U.S. May Attack Iran Missiles: White House Mulls Ways to Protect Gulf” “[U.S.] Navy Denies Plan to Attack Iranian Ships in Persian Gulf” “U.S., Allies Setting Stage to | Read More »

OPEN THREAD: ‘Anti-Americanism + Nuclear Programs = Happy Dictators. Embracing America = Setting Yourself up to be Stabbed in the Back’

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  March 29th at 02:30 PM  | 

Courtesy of The Cold Equations, here is a handy cheat sheet for dictatorial longevity. Country Prior relations with the US Nuclear weapons program US treatment of country Status of leader Egypt Allied Not significant Pressured ally to step down Permanent vacation Libya Moderately warm lately, despite past difficulties Abandoned under US pressure Bombs away Probably on his way out Syria Strained to hostile Not a | Read More »

Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD): ‘Don’t Worry, Obama and Bush are the Same!’

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  February 17th at 08:25 AM  | 

On Iran, that is: Sen. Benjamin Cardin, a Democrat from Maryland, says Obama agrees with George W. Bush: “Iran’s got to stop financing terrorist activity. Iran’s got to give up its desire to become a nuclear weapons power. Its as clear as that.” But what does Ben Cardin (D-MD) really know, anyway? After all, this is the guy who claimed the Patriot Act of 2001 | Read More »

General Petraeus: Iran ‘helping Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan’

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  February 16th at 03:35 PM  | 

For years now, Iran has been training and equipping militants and terrorists in Iraq, despite the abject refusal of Western press to report on it and the U.S. and other governments to do anything about it. Now, Iran is providing “small-level” assistance to Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, as well, according to General David Petraeus, commanding general of United States Central Command (CentCom). Despite being on | Read More »

Does Mahmoud Ahmadinejad think Gaza should be the impetus for “wiping Israel off the map”?

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  December 31st at 05:42 PM  | 

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today said it was “time to act” in response to Israel’s tiny state’s offensive against terrorists in the Gaza Strip, calling on the Arab League to move “quickly” against the Jewish state. “Aren’t these oppressed Palestinians Arabs?” asked Ahmadinejad in a televised speech. “So when should the capacity of the Arab League be used? The Arab League should act quickly.” He | Read More »

The Definition of Insanity: Richard Haass and “Talking Iran Out of the Bomb”

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  December 27th at 01:33 PM  | 

Council on Foreign Relations head Richard Haass, in an op-ed placed in the Canadian newspaper Globe and Mail this week, laid out his vision of a strategy for preventing Iran – which is currently acting every bit the rogue state as it goes on enriching uranium and threatening the sovereign state of Israel with destruction – from acquiring nuclear weapons. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the suggestions he | Read More »

Russia’s history of aiding and abetting the rogue regime in Teheran shows its desire for conflict with the West

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  August 15th at 03:29 PM  | 

Ross Douthat at The Atlantic posits that our current obligations in the War on Terror should at very least cause policymakers and military authorities to think very carefully before wading into the Russo-Georgian conflict in any meaningful way. One side effect of entering into a “proxy war with Russia,” says Douthat, is that we would run the risk of the Bear “mak[ing] things harder for | Read More »