Free Republic 1st Qtr 2026 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $15,193
18%  
Woo hoo!! And now only $197 to reach 19%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: councilon

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • Appeasing Iran (another failure of imagination?)

    08/02/2004 5:37:19 AM PDT · by OESY · 4 replies · 403+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | August 2, 2004 | Editorial
    The folks at the Council on Foreign Relations sure have an exquisite sense of timing. Within days of the release of a new CFR report urging the U.S. appeasement of Iran, the 9/11 Commission fingered the Islamic Republic as -- at a minimum -- an important enabler of al Qaeda terrorism. Another two weeks have now passed and the mullahs also appear to be tearing up a European-brokered deal on their nuclear program to resume uranium enrichment. ... Last December Mr. Kerry himself blasted the Bush Administration in a speech to the Council, saying it "stubbornly refuses to conduct a...