It’s often the case with bullies: you give them what they want, and they despise and disrespect you even more for it. Such is apparently the case with Iran. We delivered a pretty lax nuclear deal to Iran, one which almost guarantees that they will have nuclear weapons very soon. And how did they respond […]
Continue reading →Some young Iranians in Tehran wanted to show the world what it’s really like in Iran. They thought, “You know, most people view Iran as this terrible place filled with hateful people. We want to show them a different version of Iran—one where people are free and happy.” So they recorded a music video for […]
Continue reading →You read that right. Iran. The country that is downright famous for its institutionalized abuse of women. Iran. A country that forces its women to cover up from head to toe in black cloth in the desert climate of the Middle East. Iran. A country that puts women to death for being raped. Iran. A […]
Continue reading →If you are a student of history, you know that the most stable times in international and domestic politics are those times when an effective hierarchy of rule is stable. Transitional periods are the worst. Even a harsh and cruel government, if it were stable, can produce tolerable results domestically and internationally. Hegemony is national […]
Continue reading →Should it come as a surprise that a few days before Mitt Romney is scheduled to visit Jerusalem, Obama signs a strengthened U.S.-Israel security bill and releases seventy million dollars to Israel touting America’s “unshakeable commitment”? The money is allegedly to help expand Israel’s short-range missile defense system, but I can’t help but wonder about […]
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