Victor Hanson on Iran: Ahmadinejad's Egg

Victor Davis Hanson maps out a multifaceted, non-military strategy in dealing with the Iranian regime that targets and exploits Tehran's vulnerabilities.

February 19, 2007

Tapping Ahmadinejad’s Egg

by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services

We all know the Iranian M.O. — nuclear proliferation, Holocaust denial, threats to wipe out Israel, vicious anti-Western rhetoric, lavish sponsorship of terrorists at work attacking Israel and destabilizing Lebanon.

If that were not enough, we now learn that Iran has been sending agents into Iraq to destroy the fledgling democracy and supplying sophisticated roadside bombs to blow up Americans.

http://victorhanson.com/articles/hanson021907.html

Thornton of Victor Davis Hanson Private Paper's discusses the Hypocracy of the Palestanian Deal

February 18, 2007

The Stink
What makes the worst lies in the Middle East acceptable?
by Bruce Thornton , Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

Remember Big Daddy in the movie Cat on Hot Tin Roof? He kept walking around complaining about the “stink of mendacity” emanating from his dysfunctional family. I know how he feels, for every day the bad odor of lies, hypocrisy, and deluded appeasement wafts from the daily news.

http://victorhanson.com/articles/thornton021807.html

The New North Korean Deal

Playback Editor on 02/18/07

I have read numerous articles from around the world suggesting that the deal brokered with the international six and North Korea was either a failure, a reward to a rogue nation going nuclear or at best a rehash of President Clinton's 1994 deal. All three are off the mark.

The United States has been criticized unmercifully for "going it alone" in Iraq. Here they organized and championed a core group of the international community including China, Russia, Japan and South Korea to confront North Korea in a very firm and united fashion. Unlike 1994, today North Korea is both working with and being closely monitored by a group of highly motivated and concerned neighbors that never could have been as tightly organized before the U.S. upped the accountability ante with the Iraqi invasion.

New York Times-Page One Lead with Zero Credible Sources

In their relentless pursuit to draw public attention away from any progress made by the Bush Administration, today the New York Times has no problem leading off page one's headline with a story about a regrouping Al-Qaeda without one verifiable source to quote. They have chosen to give a banner headline to a story that is completely unsubstantiated.

What does that tell you about their motives and agenda?

Al Qaeda Chiefs Are Seen to Regain Power

By MARK MAZZETTI and DAVID ROHDE
Published: February 19, 2007

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 — Senior leaders of Al Qaeda operating from Pakistan have re-established significant control over their once-battered worldwide terror network and over the past year have set up a band of training camps in the tribal regions near the Afghan border, according to American intelligence and counterterrorism officials.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/19/world/asia/19intel.html?_r=1&oref=slogin