Archives
As We See It
Truth Squad
June 19, 2006
Critics of our involvement in Iraq have embraced arguments or "facts" that frequently do not stand up to scrutiny...
An Impatient Public
June 6, 2006
It is never easy to demonstrate constancy of purpose in American foreign policy, for we Americans are an impatient people...
Did Bush Kill His Own Doctrine?
May 26, 2006
Will history judge this as a lack of presidential backbone or, a weak stomach and inability on the part of "realists" to see beyond their own noses?
Here We Go Again...
May 11, 2006
Asked what it would take to begin talks with the United States to resolve the standoff, the Iranian leader said Tehran would talk to anyone except Israel, which Iran does not...
The Islamic Thinkers Society
April 21, 2006
Note the pearls of wisdom emanating from the Islamic Thinkers Society...
Group Therapy At The U.N.
April 14, 2006
When the American ambassador to the UN asked the members of the Security Council whether they thought it appropriate on Passover, a major Jewish holy day, to debate...
Notable Quotables
"Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid."
~ Israeli PM Menachem Begin, in June 1982 at height of Lebanon War, responding to then Senator Joe Biden in front of Senate Foreign Relations Committee, after Biden had attacked Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria and threatened to cut economic aid to Israel (more here).
And Then Some
Rutgers & Anti-Semitism
September 13, 2018
Willingness To Be Offended
August 10, 2018
"Shut Up" Or Make Peace
August 5, 2018
