Iran Targeted as Lessons of Iraq Ignored
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 5th, 2010 5:32 am by HL
Iran Targeted as Lessons of Iraq Ignored
Seumas Milne, The Guardian
We were ÂÂsupposed to have learned the lessons of the Iraq war. That's what Britain's ÂÂChilcot inquiry is meant to be all about. But the signs from the Middle East are that it could be happening all over again. The US is ÂÂescalating the military build-up in the Gulf, officials revealed this week, boosting its naval presence and supplying tens of billions of dollars' worth of new weapons systems to allied Arab states.The target is of course Iran. Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Bahrain are all taking deliveries of Patriot missile batteries. In Saudi Arabia,…
President Obama Offers Pep Talk to Democrats
Jeff Zeleny, NY Times
President Obama urged Senate Democrats on Wednesday to move beyond a demoralizing defeat last month in Massachusetts and to draw a lesson for their own campaigns as they navigate the difficult headwinds of a midterm election year.The latest on President Obama, his administration and other news from Washington and around the nation. Join the discussion.“I promise you, the answer is not to do nothing,” Mr. Obama said. “The American people are out of patience with business as usual.”Five days after a lively question-and-answer session with House…
Obama Must Fight for What He Promised
Joan Vennochi, Boston Globe
Who has more clout: Senator-elect Scott Brown or loyal supporters who still cheer wildly when President Obama talks about health care reform? Obama hit the New Hampshire campaign trail and promised that he wouldn’t “walk away’’ from health care.But is that a real promise to lead the charge? It was hard to tell from inside the gym at Nashua High School North.Obama rejected the idea that the recent Massachusetts election means health care reform is dead. “Suddenly, everybody says, ‘Oh no, it’s over,’…
Democrats Haunted by Revived Stereotypes
David Paul Kuhn, RCP
Election Day 1988 was only days away. Ronald Reagan was headlining a rally in Nevada. He said the options were the same as “when I stood before you.” Reagan framed the Democratic “choice” as one for “liberal policies of tax and spend, economic stagnation, international weakness, accommodation, and always, always blame America first.”Reagan-era framing is regaining its relevance. Fair or not, liberalism's worst stereotypes have returned from the dead to haunt Democrats. “Tax and spend liberal,” it's back with the charge of being soft on…
Bibi, Not Obama, Has a Plan for Iran
Michael Goodwin, New York Post
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