~by MIKHEIL SAAKASHVILI
As I write, Russia is waging war on my country.
On Friday, hundreds of Russian tanks crossed into Georgian territory, and Russian air force jets bombed Georgian airports, bases, ports and public markets. Many are dead, many more wounded. This invasion, which echoes Afghanistan in 1979 and the Prague Spring of 1968, threatens to [...] Read more »
Posts under ‘Foreign Affairs’
The War in Georgia is a War for the West
The Fall of Georgia
In 2003, the Georgian people peacefully overthrew their corrupt, despotic Soviet-era government and replaced it with a new, pro-Western, pro-capitalist, Democracy under the lead of Mikheil Saakashvili. Years after the fall of the Soviet Union, Georgia finally cast off the shackles of a corrupt, oppressive regime, and did so with almost no violence.
The violence [...] Read more »
Hamas and Fatah are a bigger threat to the Palestinians than Israel
~from The Daily Star
It is a damning indication of just how bad things have become in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip when Fatah militants there must look to Israel for protection from their Palestinian rivals. The Jewish state announced on Monday that it would help a group of 150 Fatah fighters who had fled weekend [...] Read more »
Prodigal Son (from Haaretz)
CALIFORNIA - A moment before beginning his dinner, Masab, son of West Bank Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef, glances at the friend who has accompanied him to the restaurant where we met. They whisper a few words and then say grace, thanking God and Jesus for putting food on their plates.
It takes a few seconds [...] Read more »
Obama’s Spinners Are Wrong About the “Surge” And They’re Wrong About Afghanistan
Over the past five days we’ve been inundated with all sorts of talking points emanating from the usual suspects in the Democratic Party and the leftwing echochamber of the blogosphere that one, the Iraqis, President Bush, and Gen. Petraeus have mirabile dictu suddenly found the wisdom of the Great Man’s pronouncements on Iraq vis-a-vis the [...] Read more »
These are the Torturing Maniacs Obama Thinks he can Befriend
~by Warner Todd Huston
In 1999 a handsome, earnest young man named Ahmad Batebi defied Ayatollah Khamenei in Iran. His photo caused an instant sensation and became a symbol of the flower of Iran standing ready to oppose the oppression of the Iranian religious regime.
Batebi, 31, became an icon after he was photographed as a [...] Read more »
The Forgotten Revolutionaries Who Shunned Terrorism
By Andrew L. Jaffee
Apologizing for terrorism is completely indefensible. Have people forgotten MLK and Gandhi’s teachings? Have people forgotten the Velvet and Singing Revolutions in Eastern Europe against the Soviet/Russian Empire?
The Soviets murdered millions, deported millions to Siberia, bugged telephones, banned books, outlawed native languages, encouraged Russians to emigrate to occupied nations to dilute the [...] Read more »
The Man Who Would Be President - Obama Goes To Afghanistan
~by Bill Harrison
“We have been all over India and we have decided that India isn’t big enough for such as us.”
“We are not little men, and there is nothing that we are afraid of except Drink, and we have signed a Contrack on that. Therefore, we are going away to be Kings.”
British Indian Army Sergeants [...] Read more »
Pashtun Tribes Stand up to the Taliban
Good news from the Pakistan/Afghanistan border in the mountainous tribal region currently playing host to both the resurgent Taliban and the quasi-defunct Osama bin Laden.
Locals say that a grand Jirga of eleven sub tribes of Orakzai tribe was held Friday at the Dabori area of the agency in which tribal elders and local religious scholars [...] Read more »
The Myth of Stolen Arab Land
~by Israel Kasnett
While the Arab-Israeli conflict today is a diplomatic and military one, it is also composed of a third element - the media. Not being confined, the media debate has spread throughout the internet, online newspapers, online journals and of course, blogs.
Although contributors to online blogs and threads often offer nothing more than rubbish [...] Read more »
