Now however comes news that the west is guilty of something even worse than failing to promote their cause. It is... Why do the left feel so threatened by Sarah Palin? Clearly, they see her place on the McCain ticket as a major threat to...
Wednesday, 3rd September 2008
Whose side are we on?1:49pm
Regular readers of this blog will know that I periodically lament the failure of the west to embrace, promote and defend the cause of Iranian pro-democracy, anti-regime, pro-west dissidents.Given the inherent weakness of the Iranian regime, this failure to get behind the dissidents’ cause is not only a grievous moral blot on the west’s record but a monumentally stupid strategic error. Not only is the west thus ignoring the appalling suffering and barbarities being meted out to the Iranian people by the tyranny that has enslaved their country -- it has also failed to understand that, while the regime is indeed our enemy, the Iranian people are not and are instead a crucial weapon to be used against it.It's the energy, inuit!
12:40pm
Investor’s Business Daily makes the point that McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as his VP running-mate has an important strategic dimension, which is of course being missed in all the hysteria. Alaska, with its huge oil reserves, can help break the stranglehold of global petro-tyranny as demonstrated by Russia’s current behaviour. And no-one has done more to promote Alaskan energy reserves than Palin:Palin knows energy. She's already figured out how to deliver energy to the U.S. without Congress — by championing state legislation to create a 1,712-mile natural gas pipeline across Canada to the U.S.
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It was a major feat, negotiating with the Canadian government, educating lawmakers and getting the public behind her. In a decade, the $30 billion project will ship 4.5 million cubic feet of gas a day from the North Slope to Houston'sThe left's mistake
1:06am
The more savage the left are about someone, the more you can be sure that they feel profoundly threatened by that person. Their vicious reaction to John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as the Republican vice-presidential candidate is deeply revealing -- but about themselves rather than her. They have hurled smears, contempt, condescension, ridicule and every other rhetorical missile her way. You can get a sense of the stuff being spread about her from this rebuttal by the McCain camp to this story in the New York Times, which appears to have plucked rumours circulating about Mrs Palin and published them without a qualm. (How anyone continues to take the NYT seriously beats me.)
Thursday, 4 September 2008
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