I strongly suspect that the media’s new-found debate about withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq and this administration’s flirtation with a change in policy is the result of (1) the Democratic victories in the midterms (2) a realization that the present policy is undermining foreign investment opportunities and polluting an otherwise ideal business environment.
Iraq is a [...]
Archive for November, 2006
Why the media is suddenly embracing new Iraq strategies
Posted in Igor Volsky Posts, Iraq, Media, U.S. Foreign Policy on November 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Bush to invade Iraq before July 2002
Posted in Igor Volsky Posts, Iraq, Media, U.S. Foreign Policy, War-on-Terror on November 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The Australian Associated Press is reporting that on February 27, 2002, five months before the infamous Downing Street Memo minutes and a full year before the war in Iraq, “Trevor Flugge, who was then chairman of AWB, the Australian Wheat Board, a private corporation, told AWB’s board that John Dauth, who was then Australia’s ambassador [...]
Associated Press falls in line on Israel
Posted in Igor Volsky Posts, Media, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S.-Israel Strategic Alliance on November 27, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The UN Human Rights Council “voted 32-1 with 14 abstentions to declare illegal Israel’s 1981 annexation of the Golan Heights and demand that Israel rescind its decision to impose its laws and jurisdiction on the area, which it captured in the 1967 Middle East war.” In reporting on this story the Associated Press, like the [...]
Celebrating Ourselves in the name of Celebrating Our Heroes
Posted in College Politics, Dan Black Posts, Iraq, Media, U.S. Foreign Policy, War-on-Terror on November 25, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Anyone who proudly brandishes a “Support Our Troops” ribbon on the back-end of their vehicle will be alarmed by the following news I have to report. One Iraqi War veteran -whom I shall not name for I lack the permission to rightfully do so- has been forced to step down from his position in [...]
70% of Iraqis favor U.S. withdrawal
Posted in Compassionate Conservatism, Igor Volsky Posts, Iraq, Media, U.S. Foreign Policy on November 22, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Democracy Now is reporting that “a new poll from WorldOpinion.org has found seven out of ten Iraqis want a US withdrawal within one year. Just ten percent favor the Bush administration’s stated policy to withdraw troops only as the security situation improves.” Thus, if we are to respect Iraqi democracy and national sovereignty we have [...]
NYT obscures Israeli defiance of UN
Posted in Igor Volsky Posts, Media, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S.-Israel Strategic Alliance on November 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
“A new study conducted by left-wing group Peace Now has found that approximately 40 percent of settlements, including long-standing communities, are built on private Palestinian land and not on state-owned land.” UN Security Council Resolution 242 requires Israel withdraw to her pre-1967 borders; Israel has refused to do so, in blatant violation of international law.
In [...]
WP echoes AIPAC on Israel
Posted in Igor Volsky Posts, Media, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S.-Israel Strategic Alliance on November 18, 2006 | 5 Comments »
This Washington Post piece reads like an AIPAC press release. Colum Lynch reports that “the U.N. General Assembly voted 156 to 7 on Friday to condemn Israel for “indiscriminate and disproportionate use of force” in its military offensive in Gaza…with a familiar platform to excoriate the Jewish state’s policies in the region.”
But this platform is [...]
A War Against Whom?
Posted in Dan Black Posts, Iraq, War-on-Terror on November 17, 2006 | 4 Comments »
The enemies against whom we fight -this nation- are becoming more and more difficult to identify and engage. Iraq continues, into its forty-fifth month, against the will of this country’s majority, and soldiers/Iraqis continue to die. Recent shifts in the Legislative branch of our government may lead you to believe that things might change; indeed [...]
Media frame Hoyer win as Pelosi loss
Posted in Igor Volsky Posts, Iraq, Media on November 16, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The media loves a dogfight. In a story headlined “Hoyer Beats Pelosi’s Pick In Race for No. 2 House Post,” the New York Times concludes that:
The election of Mr. Hoyer over Representative John P. Murtha of Pennsylvania, by a vote of 149 to 86, was an embarrassing setback for Representative Nancy J. Pelosi of California, [...]
