I’m trying to follow the Iran situation, but I just can’t handle the American blogger coverage. It just reminds me too much of the warblogging circa 2003, and you just get the sense that the green paint signifying the green revolution is no longer just on the blogger’s hands. Everything is so breathless and over-the-top …
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Civil War In Iran?
In Iran an anti-gay religious conservative and anti-elitist* rural populist decisively defeated urban elite liberals who wanted to move their country to the left, especially with respect to squishy leftist ideas like ‘diplomatic engagement’ and ‘rapprochement‘. Question: why aren’t Republicans happy? Answer: who said they’re not? It seems to me that we have underestimated how …
Either Way, We Better Start Bombing
I agree with many of you that Sullivan has been a great source for collected Iranian election coverage, but yesterday he published, without comment, this “reader” email: Drum is both shrewd and correct. A bare Ahmadinejad win would have hidden the fraud. A bare Mousavi win would have been much better for the regime’s atomic …
I’m Curious
Did people actually think Khamenei was going to let someone other than Ahmadalphabet win? Seriously? How many thousands of pages of ink were spilled detailing what an oppressive regime Iran is over the past few years? Every candidate for President in the last election discussed what a tyrannical regime there is in Iran. And people …
No Good Can Come From This
I doubt this ends well: The Kremlin wants to revamp a top-heavy institution by sharply cutting the number of officers and carrying out a long overdue transition from a cumbersome military machine designed for a land war in Europe to a lithe force that would handle regional wars and terrorism. But the plan, though praised …
Must See TV
This: It was Sunday night in Baghdad, and President Obama was ordering Gen. Ray Odierno, the commander of the American troops here, to shave Stephen Colbert’s head. (Not to give everything away, but the general is not as brutal with an electric razor as one would expect a bald man to be; Mr. Colbert’s hairdresser, …
65th Anniversary of D-Day
I just watched the ceremony, and as always, was left wondering what my life would have been like had I gone through something horrifying like that. We owe those guys so much. Every D-Day, my thoughts always return to the boys of Bedford, Virginia. Here is a post I wrote several years ago remembering all …