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What Are Brazil & Turkey Up To With Iran?
Fred Kaplan, Slate
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan At first glance, it may seem that Brazil and Turkey had good reasons to oppose the U.N. Security Council's sanctions against Iran and to push instead for a diplomatic solution that they'd already negotiated.At second glance, however, the reason is clearly a sham. The only question is whether the Brazilian and Turkish leaders are delusional or up to no good.Back in October 2009, the United States and Russia, still pursuing a diplomatic solution to the…
A Period of Consequences
Jamie Fly & William Kristol, Weekly Standard
Saturday,June 12, 2010 A Period of Consequences Our dangerous Iran policy. BY Jamie Fly and William Kristol June 21, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 38 The passage last Wednesday of a fourth U.N. Security Council resolution imposing sanctions on Iran was the latest act in the tragicomedy that is U.S. policy toward Iran. Read more Self-Destruction in Illinois Democrats melt down in Obama's home state. BY Fred Barnes June 21, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 38 Â Chicago Read more …
What’s the Mama Grizzly Up To?
Pat Buchanan, Pittsburgh Trib-Review
When Sarah Palin, in a rambling lakeside announcement last July in Wasilla, said she was quitting as governor of Alaska because of the abuse she and her family were taking from petty politicians and a feral press, she was written off as dead by the pundits.”A quitter, can't take the heat,” was the Beltway consensus. Receive news alertsYet, it seems that was no more the end of Sarah than it was the end of Richard Nixon when, after losing to Gov. Pat Brown in California in 1962, he spat at the press: “Just think how much you're going to be missing. You won't have…
