Many commentators thought that the recently voted ceasefire to the fighting is Lebanon would fail, but for perhaps different reasons than it is looking right now to actually be happening.  Pundits far and wide assumed that the Lebanese government would at least go along with the perception of deploying troops according to the agreement to […]

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There's a report out today that some Republicans in Congress are talking about cutting our donation to the U.N. in response to their continued corruption and refusal to reform. Its a nice idea but the proposed cuts are really laughable:
At least $17 million has been sliced this week from the Bush administration's appropriations request […]

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More on yesterday’s absurd attack by the U.N.’s Deputy Secretary General on the United States and its people.  Our U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., Ambassador John Bolton, replied strongly today to the offending speech.  Here is the Press Release from Amb. Bolton’s office (HT to Powerline for the link):

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I’m almost sympathetic for the guy really.  It has to be pretty hard to be used to such a monolithically socialist/leftist media environment like that in Europe and then come to the U.S. and suddenly be presented with unsettlingly different ideas.  After all, how dare anyone criticize the U.N.?!  Why, EVERYONE knows the U.N. is […]

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Nothing really new to report on the Iranian project to develop nuclear weapons while flaunting the fact to the U.N. and the so called "World Community".  Their plan is continuing to work since they’ve allied with Russia and China to protect their interests by preventing any serious action in the U.N. Security Council.  The U.S. […]

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Robert Kagan has a piece in today’s Washington Post that along with his intended message also makes a few other useful observations.  Kagan points out the increasingly clear cooperation between the autocratic regimes in Russia and China to oppose the advancement of liberty because it is in their own self interests.  From Kagan’s article League […]

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>>Spoiler Alert!!  Immediately following is a detailed discussion of the movie United 93, if you don’t want to see anything detailed about the movie before you see it then stop reading NOW.

I just got back from seeing the movie United 93.  The movie is based on the events of Sept. 11th 2001 and focuses specifically […]

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The U.N. was founded with hope and optimism in the wake of World War II with the intent that with this global institution gathering the attention and will of every nation that "Never Again" would another Genocide be allowed to happen.  There are other goals since taken on but this was the guiding light of […]

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The Bush Administration isn’t the only one raising the stakes and blustering to gain position for the ongoing struggle over Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and leverage over events in Iraq.  Iran is on a roll this past week with several announcements of testing new missiles and torpedoes leading to this current statement.  The message is a […]

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The Russian and Chinese governments have come out together to jointly say that they oppose serious measures to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons.  They insist on peaceful diplomacy as the only acceptable resolution to the growing crisis, and since both have vetos on the U.N. Security Council they are stopping any attempts to use […]

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There are times in the diplomatic process of international relations that a nation must expend considerable effort to determine the true intentions of another nation which is keeping its plans and motives secret.  The escalating confrontation with Iran about its pursuit of nuclear weapons is not one of them.  The new Iranian President is only […]

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You could pretty well predict what would happen here beforehand.  Just about anything the US wants at the U.N. gets voted the other way, almost certainly if it is to come to a General Assembly vote.  As did the action to replace the existing shameful joke of a Human Rights Commission that saw some of […]

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The Iranian Mullahs have heard the vague threats coming from the West and the rest, and clearly they are just not impressed to put it mildly.  I think it is fair to say they have contempt for weak Western leaders in general and the U.S. in particular. So they have replied to the Vice President’s […]

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The systematic campaign of the Iranians to diplomatically delay and divide while they develop nuclear weapons is nearly at an end.  The last major partner in this sham diplomacy was Russia, and even they now have figured out the Iranian’s aren’t serious and have given up.  Here’s the lede :

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