Category Archives: Iran
Chuck Hagel
Bret Stephens in the WSJ quotes a Nebraska senator – Roman Hruska in 1970:
“Even if he were mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers,” said Sen. Roman Hruska in 1970 as a defense of G. Harrold Carswell,..
During his Senate hearing, Chuck Hagel, a former senator from Nebraska, was confused about a number of things but especially containment policy. He had to be corrected twice. Here’s the play by play in Politico.
Hagel
Caught with Pants Down
In The Washington Free Beacon Matthew Continetti says, “foreign policy crises are metastasizing…And the United States is clueless. Its political class is reeling after its most celebrated general in decades resigned from his post as CIA director when the FBI exposed his affair with a journalist.”
Unlike scandals that bring down blowhard politicians, this one’s no fun for Washington Post editorial page editor Fred Hiatt. He gives an impressive account of the service of generals Petraeus and Allen.
Daylight
Governor Romney followed President Obama’s lead on foreign policy during much of the presidential debate Monday night. The president seemed dismayed by this, especially when Mitt stepped on his toes on the issue of “daylight between the U.S. and Israel”.
I was dismayed to miss Monday Night Football and game 7 of the NLCS.
Debate
Going into tonight’s debate, Obama is mired in troubles (I couldn’t cram in Fast and Furious, Afghan police killing American troops, or the coverup of the Benghazi attacks ), yet he leads in the polls, and Republicans are hammering Romney!
If you’ve got half an hour to blow, here’s an entertaining and angry speech by Pat Caddell, former pollster for Jimmy Carter.
Cartoon Bomb
Netanyahu’s cartoon bomb presentation at the UN brought the attention only a cartoon bomb can bring. Bill Schanefelt at American Thinker posted an analysis connecting the dots from Bibi’s bomb to the Danish Muhammed cartoon bomb blasphemy.
