by Conrad Black (March 2015)
The world has been largely anesthetized by the endless, fruitless negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program. The regime of Non-Proliferation in nuclear affairs has been dying a slow death with each new nuclear-empowered country (with the exception of South Africa, which developed the capability but abandoned it under F.W. de Klerk in 1989 in anticipation of African National Congress government and in parallel with the Angola withdrawal agreement with Cuba). more>>>
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2 Responses
Mr. Black’s article on the Middle East’s tensions and prospects is one of the wisest I have seen in a long time. He has managed, in a short form, to touch on the pulses of various players in that region, though the noun, “player”. seems hardly adequate.His sense of the context of history along with close examination of what is happening now is remarkable for its rich summaries and thoughtful possibilities. His article deserves a wide audience, very wide.d I will urge my friends to read it.
George Bailin
There are two problems with the attempt to appease Persia: a clueless Congress and a reckless, even dangerous, Oval Office. Some candor from Netanyahu might help with the former, but nothing short of 1916 will help the latter.
If there were ever an institution that needed some reality therapy on another Islam bomb, it’s the US Congress. Congress is the body, after all, that’s supposed to restrain executive folly.
Mr. Obama will make a deal with Tehran at Israel’s expense in a heartbeat; if only to poke Bibi in the eye, pander for some ephemeral help from Iran with ISIS, or simply to put a foreign policy