Reuters – President Barack Obama signed new sanctions against Iran into law on Saturday, shortly after Iran signaled it was ready for fresh talks with the West on its nuclear programme and said it had delayed long-range missile tests in the Gulf.

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She’s the best. See, ” Hague shakes his puny fist in the thirty years’ invisible war “: For some thirty years, Britain and the west have experienced war waged upon them by Iran – but fantastically, have refused to acknowledge this fact. They refused to fight back. They refused therefore also to acknowledge what has been crystal clear for at least the past two decades: that it was never going to be a choice between war or peace with Iran. It was always going to be a choice between fighting that war sooner, when Iran was weaker and the west had more chance of minimising the fall-out, and fighting that war later, when Iran would be much stronger — and possibly even a nuclear power — and when the consequences for the west would be that much more terrible. What the west refused to grasp was that there was never any chance of the Iranian regime seeing sense. That’s because what drives its dominant members at least is not conventional political impulse but an apocalyptic messianism. That means they actively seek to bring about a conflagration — even if this consumes much of Iran — since they believe that this apocalypse will prompt the return to earth of a religious messiah figure. They actually want to bring about the end of the world. But the west just didn’t take any of this remotely seriously. The result has been catastrophic for the world. Iran has been outwitting the west at every turn, aided immeasurably by an American President who extended to these genocidal fanatics the hand of friendship while smashing his fist down on their principal prospective victim, Israel. As a result, Iran has enormously extended its power in the region and become seen there – disastrously — as the strong horse which must be ridden, while the once-mighty US has become the enfeebled nag that is no longer prepared even to defend itself, let alone anyone else. RTWT.

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Reuters – With Hispanic voters upset at Republican presidential candidates over immigration, President Barack Obama played to a Latino audience on a trip to the West this week to shore up support from a group that is key to his re-election hopes.

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AP – If you want a sense of how President Barack Obama’s team intends to win in the West, look no further than Democrat Michael Bennet’s successful fight to retain his Colorado Senate seat last year.

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Reuters – Democrat Earl Ray Tomblin held on for a slim victory in the West Virginia governor’s race on Tuesday, narrowly preventing a third state special election embarrassment for President Barack Obama.

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Over on the home page , I take a look at the West Virginia gubernatorial election, where the contrast between the candidates cannot be overstated: Manchin’s election required him to step down as governor, and state-senate president Earl Ray Tomblin became acting governor. (Tomblin retains his title as senate president but is not collecting his legislative salary or presiding over the chamber.) Keep reading this post . . .

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ContributorNetwork – COMMENTARY | The United States is facing a diplomatic train wreck and President Barack Obama a political disaster in the United Nations when, as expected, the Palestinian Authority that rules the West Bank will ask for a recognition of a Palestinian state.

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is expected to submit an application to the UN Security Council to recognize Palestine as an independent state later this week. The Obama Administration is expected to use its veto in the Security Council to quash that application. Yet given its implacable hostility towards the State of Israel, it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if the Obama Administration does an about-face and gives a Palestinian state its blessing. Then watch the UN General Assembly welcome Palestine into the family of nations with open arms. One could make the argument that George W. Bush opened the door to this mess when he became the first president to call for a Palestinian state back in June 2002. Bush proclaimed : “I call on the Palestinian people to elect new leaders, leaders not compromised by terror. I call upon them to build a practicing democracy, based on tolerance and liberty .” Well, the Palestinians in Gaza elected new leaders all right. But in choosing Hamas they elected leaders not only compromised by terror but defined by it. Needless to say, legalizing crucifixion isn’t exactly a sign that the Palestinians are practicing democracy based on tolerance and liberty. The West Bank, governed by the supposedly secular Fatah, isn’t exactly a beacon of benevolence either, as it frequently arrests dissidents (including last November’s arrest of one blogger who criticized Islam). As Khaled Abu Toameh, an Israeli Arab journalist, wrote earlier this year, ” Hamas is bad; but who said that Fatah is any better? ” President Bush would go on to say, “A Palestinian state will never be created by terror — it will be built through reform.” But what do the Palestinians know other than terror? After all, a Palestinian state has never been about building a nation but rather about destroying one — Israel. The Jewish State — despite its peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan — is no more accepted in the Arab and Muslim world now than when it was established by the UN in 1947. Indeed, to this day the creation of the State of Israel is referred to in the Arab and Muslim world as “al-Nabka” or “The Disaster.” People forget that the original proposed terms of the 1947 UN Partition Plan held that both a Jewish and an Arab state be created (hence the term “partition”). Basically, the Jews accepted these terms and the Arabs didn’t. Five Arab armies invaded Israel upon its independence the following year and told the Arabs residing in Israel to leave and not come back until Israel had been conquered. Well, things didn’t exactly go according to plan. If Israel’s creation was a disaster for Arabs and Muslims then it was a disaster of their own making. It’s not as if there were calls for the establishment of a Palestinian state when Egypt governed Gaza and Jordan controlled the West Bank. Even when Israel took over Gaza and the West Bank following the Six Day War in 1967 there was no talk of Palestinian statehood. Adam Shatz, the senior editor of the

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Reuters – President Barack Obama should say clearly and publicly the United States will use its veto on the U.N. Security Council to block any Palestinian bid to gain U.N. membership, a senior Republican lawmaker said on Wednesday.

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Gotta Love Those Ukrainian Protesters

On August 25, 2011, in Uncategorized, by Richard Riker

At The Other McCain , ” Not All Feminists Are Ugly and Humorless .” If the video gets pulled, check: ” Naked Protest in front of the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Kiev, Ukraine .” And the headline at Instapundit : ” NSFW: The Ukraine Girls Really Knock Me Out. They leave the West behind .”

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