Friday, January 01, 2010
Perspective on North Korean Peace Wish
Krugman Rips into Chinese Mercantilism
Unemployment made in China. Read his Op-Ed essay here.Rising China Reality Check: 40 Million Poor Farmers
In 2010, Israeli Leaders Likely to Have to Choose Between Mass Death in Iran or Mass Death in Israel
Israel is seeking crippling sanctions on nuclear-arming Iran, as reported here.
Good luck with that. The Obama administration will talk tough--maybe. But it has no intention of pushing for the only truly tough measure--an energy blockade--that stands a chance of bringing the Islamonazi regime to its knees.
Barring a miracle--meaning a revolution in Iran--the regime will survive and nuclearize.
And Israel's leaders in 2010 will be forced to choose between allowing a second Holocaust--for Iran intends to annihilate the modern Jewish State that was reborn in the aftermath of the Nazis' genocidal war--and taking preemptive military action to prevent it from happening.
Assuming preemptive war is the only acceptable alternative, the real choice will be between launching conventional or nuclear strikes.
In other words, Israel's leaders will soon have to choose between mass death in Israel or mass death in Iran. Reason: Iran and its Islamonazi proxies, Hitlerian Hezbollah and Hamas, are loaded with missiles and rockets capable of striking Israel's main population centers. Iran's secular (but Islamizing) ally, Syria, which has missiles and chemical warheads, may or may not sit out a conflict.
Even preemptive nuclear strikes on Iran's nuclear and missile sites will probably not deter Hezbollah from unleashing its aerial arsenal because the Lebanese Shiite group is doomed without Iranian backing. At that point, Israel will have to choose between leveling most of Lebanon or letting Hezbollah level Haifa and a big part of Tel Aviv.
Given Iran's intention to also attack the United States with nuclear weapons--albeit in an indirect, deniable way, using terrorist proxies--U.S. leaders will themselves eventually have to choose between mass death in Iran or mass death in the U.S. But that's another story.
Again, regime change is the only way to avoid war with Iran. Miracles happen. Pray for one in 2010.
POSTSCRIPT: In the meantime, however, be sure to click here to read Jonathan Spyer's analysis of what's really happening in Iran. The end of the regime is not near, Spyer says. In fact, the fanatic faction around Iranian maniac-in-chief Mahmoud Ahmadinejad aims to revitalize the Islamist revolution by replacing the current clerical fascist system with a more streamlined, purely fascist one that is nevertheless still dedicated to promoting Islamist ideals at home and abroad. It seems that this group sees itself as even more Islamist than the missile-mad mullahs. Its mission, according to China Confidential analysts, is to hasten the advent of the Muslim messiah, meaning, Iran is in the grip of an apocalyptic band bent on acquiring--and using--atomic arms.2010 Forecast: It's Islamism, Stupid
It's Islamism, stupid.
The Islamist threat--from nuclear-arming Iran and Al Qaeda--will supplant the economy as the lead, front-page story in 2010.
The Obama administration's appeasement policy has made war with Iran inevitable--on Tehran's terms.
The administration's obscene plan to put Al Qaeda war criminals on trial in a civilian court in New York City has made the city, America's financial and cultural capital--and the home to the largest Jewish community outside Israel--the number one target for every Islamist terrorist on earth. The first Muslim-born, Third World-American President has basically invited--or dared--Al Qaeda to attack New York and its suburbs.
Specific threats to New York include: an attack by a missile launched from a cargo ship flying a flag of convenience; radiological attack using a "dirty bomb" smuggled into the city in a shipping container; Mumbai-style swarming attacks; suicide bombings; truck and car bombings; Fort Hood-style shooting rampages by lone jihadist gunmen programmed to kill by so-called Internet Imams; and subway and commuter train bombings.
As Obama himself might put it, the threat is unprecedented.
As Maureen Dowd put it, "Heck of a job, Barry."
Saturday, 2 January 2010
Evan Ramstad puts North Korea's official editorial, proposing peaceful relations with the United States and a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula, in perspective. Read it here.
Nobel laureate Paul Krugman asserts that "predatory" Chinese mercantilism will lead to the loss of more than a million American jobs.
Forty million Chinese farmers live below the poverty line, making less than $175 a year. Click here for the story.
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