Ten days after the Pakistani elections, the geopolitical consequences of President Pervez Musharraf's defeat are beginning to come into focus. And they are grim. By any measure, Pakistan is a dysfunctional state. At least 25 percent of its 160 million people live in abject poverty. A third of Pakistanis suffer from illiteracy. The only prospering... [ Read entire Post ]
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February 2008 Archives
February 29, 2008 at 4:26 PM
The curse of the moderates
February 26, 2008 at 7:27 PM
Iran's game of grand strategy
Sunday thousands of IDF and police forces began streaming to the border with Gaza. In a massive show of force, they successfully deterred Gazans from participating in Hamas's first attempt to assault the border with Israel on Monday morning. Israel's successful response to Hamas's provocation stemmed from the IDF's understanding of the doctrinal source of... [ Read entire Post ]
February 22, 2008 at 3:18 PM
Kosovo's stark warning
Kosovo's US-backed declaration of independence is deeply troubling. By setting a precedent of legitimizing the secession of disaffected minorities, it weakens the long-term viability of multi-ethnic states. In so doing, it destabilizes the already stressed state-based international system. States as diverse as Canada, Morocco, Spain, Georgia, Russia and China currently suffer problems with politicized minorities.... [ Read entire Post ]
February 15, 2008 at 6:08 PM
Mughniyeh's true legacy
It is quite possible that terror master Imad Mughniyeh was not killed Tuesday night in Damascus for his past crimes, but to prevent him from carrying out additional attacks in the future. On January 30, French security services raided a Paris apartment and arrested six Arab men. Three of the men - two Lebanese and... [ Read entire Post ]
February 14, 2008 at 7:10 AM
Zbigniew Brzezinski in Damascus
On Tuesday Eli Lake from the New York Sun reported that Democratic Presidential frontrunner Illinois Senator Barack Obama's senior foreign policy advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski was leading a Rand Corporation delegation to Syria. I wonder if Zbig "blame the Jews" Brzezinski was in town when Imad Mughniyeh was finally sent to his big, fat, ugly, virgins... [ Read entire Post ]
February 12, 2008 at 6:12 PM
More democracy please
I'm an elitist. Eighty percent of the critical decisions affecting Israel are shaped by maybe 100 or 200 people, 300. These are my clients. Thus spaketh Prof. Yehezkel Dror, the resident blabbermouth in the Winograd Commission, which Prime Minister Ehud Olmert appointed in the wake of the 2006 war with Hizbullah. Dror made this statement... [ Read entire Post ]
February 8, 2008 at 1:15 AM
AIPAC's mystifying behavior
Josh Mandel is a first-term legislator in the Ohio House of Representatives. He is also a sergeant in the US Marine Corps reserves. Last year, Mandel arrived at the state house in Columbus after a tour of duty in Iraq. There, he saw first-hand how Iran was fueling the insurgency that is killing his fellow... [ Read entire Post ]
February 4, 2008 at 1:13 AM
Habash's last laugh
Where does Arab fanaticism come from? Does it come from the mosque? Or does it come from the fanatics' intended targets' refusal to close down the mosque? The death by natural causes of George Habash on January 26 indicates strongly that the latter is the case. Habash, the founder and commander of the Popular Front... [ Read entire Post ]
February 2, 2008 at 2:34 AM
Will we now be silent?
In March 2006, the Israeli people elected incompetents to lead us. It only took four months for Hizbullah to make us pay a price for our mistake. In the July and August 2006 war, Israelis came to understand that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, then defense minister Amir Peretz and then IDF... [ Read entire Post ]
