[risk]

I've been thinking about appeasement lately, so this article caught my attention. Beeman's homepage has more articles through which to sift.

[Cincinatus]

Michael Ledeen, The Great Neocon Bogeyman, now that Richard Pearle has exited stage right.

His attacks on Iran, even when Iran was assisting the United States, helped keep the Bush administration from seeking any rapprochement with Tehran.

Considering that the Islamic Fundamentalist government of Iran is a major sponsor of global terrorism (Hezbollah, for one), why would we want rapprochement with Tehran? In fact, the Iranian people are one step away from outright revolt.

[risk]

Here are archives of Ledeen articles:

• Ledeen at Jewish World Review
• Ledeen at National Review
• At American Enterprise Institute
• A bibliography at NameBase
• A few articles and a biography at Bendor Associates

[risk]

From a NYPost article called Dubya's Doctrine by Michael A. Ledeen:

It is also another stern rebuttal of the conceits of the intellectual class, because it shows once again that a fine president does not need advanced degrees or high standing in the salons to understand what's important.

For the third time since the Second World War we have a president without intellectual pretensions, and for the third time we've been fortunate to find a man with sound instincts and an inspiring vision.

Harry Truman, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush.

Maybe there's a lesson there?

Yes!

[TigerLikesRooster]

RE #1

There was an article by Ledeen posted in this forum not long ago, where he basically advocated for helping Iranian oppositions ousting Iranian regime, but explicitly ruled out the military invasion of Iran. The article was about his address to Iranians beamed by Iranian satellite TV in U.S.

Here is the link:

Michael Ledeen reaches millions in Iran via Iranian Satellite Television

[Catspaw]

Why don't you ping Michael Ledeen? He's a freeper.