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Dr. Krauthammer -- By: NRO Staff
The Corner on National Review Online —
... You see? The Obama magic. Engagement works. Russia is on board. Except that, as theWashington Post inconveniently pointed out, Pres. Dmitry Medvedev said the same thing a week earlier, and the real power in Russia, Vladimir Putin, had changed not at all in his opposition to additional sanctions. And just to make things clear, when Iran then brazenly test-fired offensive missiles, Russia reacted by declaring that this newest provocation did not warrant the imposition of tougher sanctions. ...
It's All About The Theatre
RIGHTWINGSPARKLE —
On Sept. 24th Obama presided over the Security Council at the UN. It was the first time with an American President in the chair. The world was watching. The French and the British were urging Obama to use the attention being given to it to tell the world about Iran's illegal uranium-enrichment facility being hid near Qom and to call for immediate action, but Obama refused to do so. Why? Because Obama wanted the Security Council meeting to be about his own dream of a nuclear-free world. The president, reports the New York Times, citing “White House ...
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: “When France chides you for appeasement, you know you’re scraping bottom.”
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Instapundit —
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: “When France chides you for appeasement, you know you’re scraping bottom.”
And the Russians and Chinese are warning us about excessive socialism. . . .
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MAY YOU LIVE IN INTERESTING TIMES
Midwest Conservative Journal —
That title, by the way, is supposed to be(but probably isn’t) a Chinese curse:
When France chides you for appeasement, you know you’re scraping bottom. Just how low we’ve sunk was demonstrated by the Obama administration’s satisfaction when Russia’s president said of Iran, after meeting President Obama at the U.N., that “sanctions are seldom productive, but they are sometimes inevitable.”
Don’t take it from me. Take it from [French President Nicolas] Sarkozy, who could not conceal his astonishment at ...
Will Tiny Israel Save the World?
The Anchoress —
... a serious problem, isn’t it? I mean, look we were told not too long ago that “there was nothing to worry about Iran’s nuclear program, that it had virtually ceased.”
And then the president tells us, the other day (when he was assured it would not “dilute” his “I have a dream of a world without nuclear weapons” speech to the UN), “oh, yeah, by the way, Iran’s got a serious nuclear program in Qom, and I’ve known about it a little while.
We got Iran to say it would ...
