Review & Outlook: Syria’s U.N. Admirers – WSJ.com. Bashar Assad’s regime has murdered at least 500 Syrians, and perhaps hundreds more, in putting down its democratic uprising. So what does the United Nations do? Nothing, except hold out the prospect of a seat on its Human Rights Council for the Syrian regime. Welcome back to the looking glass ... Read more
Archive for the ‘Liberal Press’ Category
Tehran’s Nuclear Bazaar
April 20 | Posted by mrossol | Liberal Press, ObamaTehran’s Nuclear Bazaar – WSJ.com. Why don’t we hear about Obama’s diplomatic skills in the press? === To assess U.S. efforts to halt Iran’s imperial ambitions, you can look to the city of Natanz, where the Iranian regime is firing up a new generation of centrifuges, or to Syria, where its client regime is shooting democrats in the streets. Then... Read more
Review & Outlook: Mr. Goldstone Recants – WSJ.com
April 5 | Posted by mrossol | Liberal Press, Party Politics, The LeftReview & Outlook: Mr. Goldstone Recants – WSJ.com. I ask again – where is the [liberal] press? Regrets, Richard Goldstone has a few, if you can believe it. The principal author of the U.N. Human Rights Council’s notorious “fact-finding mission” report on the Gaza war of 2008-09 now concedes he didn’t have enough facts when he equated Israel with... Read more
Guantanamo Diver
April 5 | Posted by mrossol | Liberal Press, Obama, Party Politics, The LeftVindicating Guantanamo – WSJ.com. Where it press? Where is the outrage? After the ‘moral outrage’ leveled at George Bush, the hypocrisy is a truly amazing.
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From Disraeli to ‘the Bang-Bang’
April 3 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, Obama, Party Politics, The LeftFrom Disraeli to ‘the Bang-Bang’ NOONAN. An excerpt: “Do you see,” Disraeli asks, “the kind of capacity that is adequate to the occasion? Do you find . . . that sagacity, that prudence, that dexterity, that quickness of perception” and that mood of “conciliation” are necessary in the transaction of foreign affairs? No, he suggests, you do not. All... Read more
