tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24931111.post116491592335507719..comments2007-03-23T14:01:09.240-04:00George Ajjanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17612712192396564761noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24931111.post-1166012118427937312006-12-13T07:15:00.000-05:002006-12-13T07:15:00.000-05:00Maybe Bush's inclusion of Iran in his Axis of Evil was a proper, if belated response, to Iran's referring to America as the Great Shaitan.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24931111.post-1165854233468497222006-12-11T11:23:00.000-05:002006-12-11T11:23:00.000-05:00a friend sent the following feedback to me by email:<BR/><BR/><I>"You know that I like and respect your political aspirations.<BR/><BR/>But please George, your rhetorical question: If you had to guess, would you guess the Iranians are happy or sad about the Democrats' victories?<BR/><BR/>Come on......., it would be more meaningfull to put the rhetorical question this way:<BR/><BR/>If you had to guess, do you think the Democrats victory brought happiness to the people of:<BR/><BR/>England, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Belgium, France, Holland, and all the other European nations, not to mention all the people in the nations of Asia, Africa, South America, as well as Mexico and Canada?<BR/><BR/>Or to put it another way, if you could poll the 6.5 billion inhabitants of the world, what percentage do you think were disappointed about the successes of the Democrats in the USA?<BR/><BR/>And what ever percentage you might guess, they would certainly include the militaristic hawks in the Israeli Likud government who are concerned that their stranglehold of influence over this administration might be slightly threatened at the prospect of a balanced American government.<BR/><BR/>Come on George, even a die-hard Republican has to see the realities of our US foreign policy in the Mideast."</I>George Ajjanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17612712192396564761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24931111.post-1165643246800990222006-12-09T00:47:00.000-05:002006-12-09T00:47:00.000-05:00<A HREF="http://freesyria.wordpress.com/2006/12/09/changing-the-regime-in-syria-is-a-must/" REL="nofollow">Down with Assad</A>Fareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00819564807017549039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24931111.post-1164921578991549532006-11-30T16:19:00.000-05:002006-11-30T16:19:00.000-05:00Not sure if anyone has noticed, because it seems to be flying somewhere under the mainstream media's radar, but all the recent talk of a shift back to "Realism" in Foreign Policy has provoked a response from some in the Neoconservative sphere. Have a look:<BR/><BR/>Robert Kagan & William Kristol, "Surrender as 'Realism': Retreat would win us no friends and lose us no adversaries," THE WEEKLY STANDARD, December 4, 2006, available at [http://www.weeklystandard.com]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com