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 »

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 »

Report: North Korean Leader Kim Jong-Il recovering from Stroke, Brain Surgery

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  September 11th at 08:29 AM  | 

That’s the word on the even more reclusive than usual leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The Korea Herald, South Korea’s English-language daily, reports: North Korean leader Kim Jong-il had surgery after suffering a stroke sometime after Aug. 14 and is recovering, officials at the nation’s top intelligence agency were quoted as saying yesterday in their report to the National Assembly’s Intelligence Committee. | Read More »