The New Wannabe Ottomans
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 11th, 2010 4:32 am by HL
The New Wannabe Ottomans
Victor Davis Hanson, RealClearPolitics
A Turkish Islamic group — the “Humanitarian Relief Foundation,” often associated by Western intelligence agencies with terrorist sponsorship — orchestrated the recent Gaza flotilla. It was hoping for the sort of violent, well-publicized confrontation with the Israeli navy that later followed.Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, immediately issued veiled threats to Israel. He then badgered the United States, Turkey's NATO patron ally, to condemn the Israeli interdiction. Receive news alertsWhile the world piled on in its criticism of Israel, there was also a sort of…
History, Politics Add Intrigue to U.S.-England Match
Gerard Baker, WSJ
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Taking Government Back From Big Business
Robert Kuttner, Boston Globe
As investigations are now revealing, there were laws that should have prevented the BP oil blowout, but the oil companies kept getting waivers from the Minerals Management Service, which was thoroughly tamed by the petroleum industry and its political allies in Washington.The government’s supervision of the oil drilling industry was particularly corrupted under the direction of Vice President Dick Cheney, the former chief executive of Halliburton who ran the Bush administration’s energy task force. But restoring vigilant supervision evidently was not a priority for the…
