This strikes me as a very smart move. I have followed the speculation on Palin for a few months now, but I didn’t place much stock in her chances. For those of you that don’t know, she is the popular Governor of Alaska, a mother of 5 and her youngest child, born just [...]
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Obama built up a whole lot of expectation for tonight’s speech, particularly with the huge venue and what some considered an over the top ‘rock concert’ atmosphere. He met, perhaps even surpassed, those expectations.
It was a truly great speech, and reminded me and I expect a whole lot of others what so impressed us [...]
Michael J. Totten: The Truth About Russia in Georgia
Read the whole thing. Everything you thought you knew about the war in Georgia might just be wrong.
I haven’t ever been very impressed with Joe Biden, even considering that he is a Democrat and I generally am not. He mostly has struck me as a tiresome windbag who is far more impressed with himself then he really has a right to be. Beyond that, I admit that I don’t know a whole [...]
CNN.com
President Bush said Wednesday that the United States has received reports of Russian actions that are “inconsistent” with Moscow’s statement it had halted military operations in Georgia.
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili says Russia has continued to attack the city of Gori.
His remarks came amid fears a Russian convoy advance into Georgia, and claims of violations on [...]
Huffington Post interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski
Zbigniew Brzezinski: Fundamentally at stake is what kind of role Russia will play in the new international system. Unfortunately, Putin is putting Russia on a course that is ominously similar to Stalins and Hitlers in the late 1930s. Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt has correctly drawn an analogy between Putins [...]
CNN.com
Georgia’s president said Friday that his country is under attack by Russian tanks and warplanes, and he accused Russia of targeting civilians as tensions over the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia appeared to boil over into full-blown conflict.
Georgian troops fire rockets at seperatist South Ossetian troops from an unnamed location not far from Tskhinvali.
“All [...]
Natan Sharansky and Bassem Eid write about Palestine peace in the Wall Street Journal
Oslo proponents believed a strong Arafat, unconstrained by the inherent checks of democratic rule, would be able to fight Hamas and forge a final peace with Israel. A weak Palestinian democracy, the logic went, actually served the interest of peace by creating [...]
