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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 27, 2010 9 Comments
There is a must read article at City Journal by author Claire Berlinski, A Hidden History of Evil – Why doesn’t anyone care about the unread Soviet archives?: In the world’s collective consciousness, the word “Nazi” is synonymous with evil. It is widely understood that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 26, 2010 1 Comment
President Obama’s outreach to Russia constitutes a “strategic reset,” according to Spencer Ackerman. The proof? The recent Joint Statement issued by the U.S. and Russia commemorating the meeting of U.S. and Soviet troops at the Elbe River during WWII (emphasis mine): Now this is something...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 22, 2010 4 Comments
So reports The New York Times regarding a new conventional weapons system under development. In the recent arms control treaty signed with the Russians we agreed to count each of these new conventional weapons towards the nuclear weapons limits in the treaty, meaning that for...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 10, 2010 16 Comments
The President of Poland and much of Poland’s military and civilian leadership were killed when the presidential plane crashed in Russia on the way to commemorate the massacre of 22,000 Polish officers by the Soviets in 1940: Polish President Lech Kaczynski and some of the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 07, 2010 12 Comments
In 1940, the Soviet Union executed 22,000 Polish officers in the Katyn Forest near Smolensk, Russia. The mass grave was discovered in 1943 by invading German troops, but the Soviet propaganda machine create the mythology that the massacre was committed by the Nazis: In late...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 02, 2010 7 Comments
Keep moving, nothing to see here: Now Mr Obama is expected to rule out the development of new weapons systems — despite reservations from the military, which is mindful that Russia and China are modernising and expanding their nuclear forces respectively. He will also drop...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2010 5 Comments
The United States has a hard time getting a sanctions resolution against Iran through the U.N. Security Council because Iran has two protectors (Russian and China) among the five permanent members with veto power. Israel has only one reliable veto-wielding friend on the Security Council,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 06, 2009 8 Comments
Joe Klein, sometimes hero, sometimes villain to just about everyone, wrote a lengthy article about all the problems Hillary Clinton is having in just about every part of the world with just about everyone over just about every foreign policy issue. But one sentence in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 17, 2009 11 Comments
Barack Obama is on another “it’s all Bush’s fault” tear again. This time, using the tired campaign theme of cleaning up Bush’s mess: Another way of putting it is when, you know, I’m busy and Nancy busy with our mop cleaning up somebody else’s mess...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 09, 2009 21 Comments
Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. For what? Peace in Afghanistan? Peace in Iraq? Peace in the Middle East? Nope. How about peace in Chicago, Honduras, Detroit, or somewhere? Nope. What a joke. Was Chris Matthews on the committee? What an embarrassment to the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2009 6 Comments
Barack Obama is fiddling on his grand plans to remake the U.S. health care and energy systems, while our economy and our position in the world burn. The most recent evidence of the harm being caused by our fiddler-in-chief is the move internationally to abandon...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 31, 2009 3 Comments
Dan at Gay Patriot has an interesting post on how Ted Kennedy saved a girl from the Soviet medical system, which could not treat her disease. Fair enough, Teddy saved a girl (I’m resisting the urge to mention …. well you know). I am familiar...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 19, 2009 4 Comments
Is the collapse of the Soviet Union a reasonable analogy for what may happen in Iran? There are certain parallels, including repressive regimes bent on imposing ideology to perpetuate their own rule. In each case, it is hard to imagine how the repression could end,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 14, 2009 0 Comments
I have to say, the left-wing blogosphere has been pretty responsible as relates to the Iranian election fraud. I’ve followed the posting via Memeorandum by Andrew Sullivan, Matthew Yglesias, Spencer Ackerman, Digby, Hilzoy, and others with whom I normally disagree. While I might not have...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 20, 2009 13 Comments
The debate over interrogation of the three top-level al-Qaeda leaders who were subjected to waterboarding is entering the honest phase. The first phase was the “this is the worst thing that has happened in the history of the earth” handwringing on the left. The second...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2009 12 Comments
I long have criticized the bias of the NY Times, and mocked its business death spiral. My posts Nude Swiss Hikers Rescue NY Times and NY Times New Business Strategy: DEATH mocked the sensationalist trend on The Times’ website. I was the first (as far...
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