Preventing WW111 ... Jersulalem Post

Oct 25, 2007 21:47 | Updated Oct 26, 2007 16:47
Column one: Preventing World War III

It goes without saying that if and when a decision is made in Jerusalem or Washington to carry out an attack against Iran's nuclear installations the public will only learn of the decision in retrospect. All the same, over the last few weeks, it has been impossible to miss the fact that the Iranian nuclear program has become the subject of intense and ever increasing international scrutiny. This naturally gives rise to the impression that something is afoot.

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Krauthammer on GOP Field...

October 26, 2007
Relax, Republicans, It's a Fine Field
By Charles Krauthammer

Major grumbling among conservatives about the Republican field. So many candidates, so many flaws. Rudy Giuliani, abortion apostate. Mitt Romney, flip-flopper. John McCain, Mr. Amnesty. Fred Thompson, lazy boy. Where is the paragon? Where is Ronald Reagan?

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/10/relax_republicans_this_is_a_fi.html

Putin Plays the West as Fools

Putin compares US shield to Cuba

Russian President Vladimir Putin has compared US plans for a missile shield in Europe to the Cuban missile crisis of the 1960s.
The crisis saw the US and Soviet Union go to the brink of nuclear war.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7064428.stm

Hold Your Conventional Wisdom!
Thursday, Oct. 25, 2007
By WILLIAM KRISTOL

"In case you missed it, a few days ago Senator Clinton tried to spend $1 million on the Woodstock concert museum. Now, my friends, I wasn't there. I'm sure it was a cultural and pharmaceutical event. I was tied up at the time." This jab by John McCain at Hillary Clinton at the most recent Republican presidential debate received the evening's only standing ovation. Admittedly, those standing were partisan Florida Republicans. Still, it was a moment--in its combination of high-spirited playfulness and polemical sharpness--that made me think happier days may lie ahead for the GOP.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1675601,00.html

Hanson on Bush Legacy

October 24, 2007
The Legacy of the Bush Administration?
by Victor Davis Hanson
The American

This article appears in the "Geopolitics" section of the recent issue of The American.

By October, 15 months before his presidency would end, George Bush’s approval ratings still hovered around 30 percent.

His administration will go down, say historians such as Columbia’s Eric Foner and Princeton’s Sean Wilentz, as a disaster. As Wilentz put it, “Many historians are now wondering whether Bush, in fact, will be remembered as the very worst president in all of American history.”

http://victorhanson.com/articles/hanson102407.html