For leaders in democracies, perhaps the most difficult decision is to change course. Decision-making is hard enough. Revisiting decisions and acknowledging mistakes is simply beyond the capabilities of most leaders. Once they have chosen a strategy, they stick with it for better or for worse. For a leader to change strategic course, he must first... [ Read entire Post ]
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January 2008 Archives
January 29, 2008 at 4:28 PM
Grimacing to victory and grinning to defeat
January 25, 2008 at 11:24 PM
Is Livni the answer?
Tuesday Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had his first reported telephone conversation with his Iranian counterpart President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Their conversation was a sign of the rising intimacy in Egyptian-Iranian relations in the wake of November's US National Intelligence Estimate on Iran's nuclear weapons program. According to media reports, the two men discussed the situation in... [ Read entire Post ]
January 21, 2008 at 10:34 PM
The audacity of truth
It is hard to believe, but in just two weeks, American voters will all but determine the identities of the Democratic and Republican nominees for this year's presidential elections. It is hard to believe because today, after a handful of early primaries, neither side has even identified a frontrunner. The open race, unprecedented in recent... [ Read entire Post ]
January 19, 2008 at 2:18 AM
Lieberman the foolish wise man
At the end of the Second Lebanon War, Israel rumbled at the edge of a political volcano. Demobilized reservists marched to Jerusalem demanding that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert resign in the wake of his incompetent handling of the war. Just as the reservists' protests were gathering momentum, in walked Avigdor Lieberman, the head of the... [ Read entire Post ]
January 15, 2008 at 12:02 AM
How Olmert defies gravity
Monday Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni opened negotiations with her Palestinian counterpart Ahmed Qurei regarding the partition of Jerusalem; the destruction of hundreds of Israeli communities in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem; the expulsion of between a hundred thousand and half a million Israelis from their homes; the borders of Israel; and the right of immigration of... [ Read entire Post ]
January 11, 2008 at 4:55 PM
George in Jihadland
US President George W. Bush arrived in Israel at the start of an eight-day tour of the Middle East at an interesting moment. In the lead-up to his trip, enemy forces, of both the terrorist and statxe variety, clarified their strategic outlook and the scope of their ambitions. Unfortunately, the president seems not to have... [ Read entire Post ]
January 7, 2008 at 11:41 PM
Bush's historical parallels
During his tenure as President George W. Bush's defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld often likened the administration's foreign policy decisions to those of the Truman administration during the first years of the Cold War. As President George W. Bush makes his way to Israel, the Palestinian Authority, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states with a... [ Read entire Post ]
January 4, 2008 at 5:00 PM
Protest plan to partition Jerusalem
The day before President Bush arrives in Israel, onejerusalem, a great organization dedicated to protecting the unity of Israel's capital city is organizing an important demonstration to protect the city from partition. Here's the information from the onejerusalem.org website:One Jerusalem: Human Chain Around Jerusalem[01. 3.2008]On the day before President Bush begins his visit to Israel,... [ Read entire Post ]
The rape of Israel
Last Wednesday, New York's Jewish Week reported that the editor of Israel's self-described "newspaper of record" asked the US secretary of state to rape his country and told her that his erotic fantasy is to watch America rape Israel. On September 10, at a dinner at the home of US Ambassador Richard Jones, Secretary of... [ Read entire Post ]
The Day After - Frontpage Magazine Symposium on Iran
Recent reports indicate that Israel is preparing for the day that the Mullahs in Iran get their hands on nuclear weapons. Israeli ministers are drafting proposals on what Israel will have to do in this nightmare scenario. What exactly should Israel do? What can it do? What must it do? Are pre-emptive measures part... [ Read entire Post ]
January 1, 2008 at 4:02 PM
It's not personal, it's war
One of the natural and negative consequences of political assassinations is that they personalize the general and simplify the complex. Policies formed in the aftermath of assassinations are rarely wise and tend to focus on secondary - personal - issues while ignoring larger strategic ones. It is fairly clear that this is what is happening... [ Read entire Post ]
