An excellent analysis by Walid Phares of Iran’s strategy and tactics in the current “hostage crisis”:
Month: April 2007
A Reminder from Wretchard
Wretchard is not a man who, as did the panel on Charlie Rose last week, thinks America did the honorable thing in Vietnam and Cambodia as they described our current policies as insufficiently welcoming of Iraqi refugees. They may well be right that accepting that flow is the “right” thing, but their assurance that the humanitarian position first accepts defeat, pulls out, then accepts those who manage, somehow, to reach our shores hardly seems a humanitarian solution. Wretchard observes that patience is a practical virtue: the decade of overflights demonstrate that perseverance can work. Belmont Club gives us a context for those ads that thank us. Strangely, allusions to Germany and Japan and even South Korea show up in comments more often than do the Kurds. But they remind us why and how order does reign in parts of Irag, though it did not come easily nor quickly. Peace takes longer than war.
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MSM Military Expertise
I watched part of an interview on C-SPAN conducted by a guy who was identified as a (the?) “CBS News national security correspondent.” The interview was with a leftist author who has written a conspiracy-mongering book about the Blackwater company. At one point the author used the term, “fourth generation warfare.” The CBS guy subsequently said that he had never heard that term before and was unfamiliar with it. Is this possible? It seems like a very odd admission for a “national security correspondent” to make. Perhaps I misheard, or the correspondent really was familiar with the term and was trying to elicit an explanation for an audience he assumed was not. Either way, very strange.
Now it’s Official: Tax-Free New Hampshire
CONCORD NH (Reuters) – Governor John Lynch today announced that he will begin the process to change the official name of the state to Tax-Free New Hampshire. This will require an amendment to the state constitution, which must receive a three-fifths majority in both houses of the state legislature and approval by a majority of the voters in the next regular election. “It’s clear that we will not have the change in place for the 2008 elections. In fact, that will be our earliest opportunity to get it on the ballot. We’re looking ahead to 2012.” The heavily-covered New Hampshire presidential primary is expected to give the new name wide exposure.