As We See It

Uncle Sucker

August 30, 2011

So the U.S. just spent $1 billion to liberate Libya from terrorist rule only to have Libya's new rulers thumb their noses at extraditing the Lockerbie bomber? Explain to us again...

August 23, 2011

Sadly, this is another example of premature exuberance about the so-called Libyan conflict (aka the "not war"). “Sadly” because it’s by one of the better newspapers out there today...

August 19, 2011

Lucky Israel (not) gets to reap the benefits of President Obama’s foreign policy, to the extent one can call the fruits of incompetency and inexperience, policy...

August 18, 2011

An Israeli refusal to apologize to the Turks will not only result in Turkish wrath, but also US anger...

August 17, 2011

No wonder U.S. foreign policy (among other things) is such a mess. Just look at the caliber of our leaders and “prominent politicians.” No dinner guest or host is too sleazy, slimy...

August 9, 2011

“The great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.”

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"Mr. Netanyahu is one of the most media-savvy politicians on the planet. On Friday he appeared live via video link on 'Real Time with Bill Maher,' taking the host’s alternately sardonic and serious line of questioning with gazelle-like alacrity."

~ Anthony Grant, jourrnalist who has written for many major newspapers and worked in television at Paris and Tel Aviv, interviewing former PM Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, at the outset of Mr. Netanyahu's new book (more here).
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