Iran Reviews > It’s the mullahs, stupid

http://www.brendanloy.com [The Irish Trojan’s Blog] Money quote: “The ascendancy of Ahmadinejad’s perfidious Iran is a spectacular problem for the United States, and a spectacular challenge. ”¦ If we succeed in Iraq (a considerable if) and fail in Iran, we will have failed in the Middle East.

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[Tonykaron.com] Rootless Cosmopolitan » Blog Archive » Iran, Not Iraq, Fuels the ...: dumped Donald Rumsfeld’s body on the White House lawn, are not men prone to launching offensives on the impulse of vengeance or any other whim. They have spent years in military academies and on battlefields learning the art of picking their battles with a view to advancing an overall strategy, with their targets and their timing always chosen not simply with the optimal conditions for winning a particular engagement in mind, but also with an overriding sense of how that particular engagement advances the overall aims of the war.

[Floppingaces.net] Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » Bush Makes A Surprise Visit To Iraq: I vowed that day, after September the 11th, to do everything I could to protect the American people. And I was able to make that claim because I knew there were people such as yourself who were willing to be on the front line in the war on terror.

[How to Save the World] Self-Experimentation: This Time it's Serious: Just like Seth Roberts' attempts to find the cause and cure of his personal diseases, through slow painstaking, rigorous self-experimentation, I will be using this 5-step plan (decide on objective, select base-line data, research and imagine hypotheses, test those hypotheses through immediate feedback, improvisationally, and keep practicing what seems to work). Doesn't this make a lot more sense to you than the learned helplessness of one-size fits-all conventional-wisdom 'best practices' and 'solutions', many with no hypothesis to support them at all (just the result of terribly limited trial and error)?

Hot Airhttp://hotair.com [Hot Air] News round-up: So much for UN Resolution 1559, that fantasy tale in which Lebanon was supposed to take control of its south while Hezbollah disarmed. If Lebanon ends up siding with Hezbollah’s terrorists, that would make three Islam-dominated states openly supporting Hezbollah’s campaign of raining down missiles on Israel’s civilian populations, in violation of the spirit and letter of the Geneva Conventions.

[Melting] Reaping the Rewards: Unlike many other temples, people waited patiently at the main building and famous Tomb Raider tree for group after group to get their photos taken, and what could have been a circus was actually a quite polite and understanding few minutes of people trading cameras and trying to get the right shots for complete strangers. I did my part and offered to take a photo for a large Dutch family, whose father hesitated for a moment thinking it wouldn’t be worth the hassle, but then admitted he had no pictures of their whole family together, just the kids with one parent or the other.

http://journals.aol.com/bmiller224/OldHickorysWeblog [Old Hickory's Weblog] Air power: Larry Johnson and Pat Lang have been looking at the issue of the effectiveness of air power to achieve Israel's goals in southern Lebanon:  Here We Go Again by Larry Johnson, No Quarter blog 07/18/06;

http://dailywarnews.blogspot.com  Today in Iraq: Underlining the importance of expansion of cooperation between the government of Iraq and the neighboring countries to combat terrorism, through, inter alia, the cooperation of their security officials to combat terrorism and to consider ways and mean s of enhancing security, and expressing concern over the continued presence and activities of certain recognized terrorist groups operating in Iraq and the resulting implications and threats for the security and stability of Iraq and its neighbors, the m inisters expressed their support for the efforts made by the government and parliament of Iraq in accordance with its new constitution to combat all forms of terrorism and to prevent terrorist groups from using Iraqi territory to supply, organize or laun ch terrorist operations against neighboring countries or to infiltrate into their territories. The ministers emphatically called for more effective continuation and enhancement of these efforts.

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