I have just read the description of President Obama’s Financial Responsibility Summit (if I got the name right). It was disturbingly familiar.
It was an NEA conference writ large (or at least upscale). Continue reading ‘Obama’s NEA-Style Summit’
Archive for February, 2009
On a late drive home the other night I found myself listening to the “BBC World Report” on an NPR station. (Don’t look at me like that – it was a remote area and that was the only station I could get.)
There was a story about a delegation of British MP’s visiting Gaza to inspect the humanitarian crisis. The MPs were already on record as condemning Israel for the crisis and the war, so their comments were unsurprising. They called on Israel to relieve the suffering it had caused by closing off the Israeli-Gaza border crossings.
Will “Truman’s Mistake” Be Corrected?
Published February 6, 2009 Democratic Party , Iran , Obama , Truman 1 CommentTags: Israel
I recently read some history of the creation of the modern state of Israel. I was struck by the crucial role played by President Harry Truman. Put simply, if not for him, Israel would not now exist. Harry Truman, not the Truman administration or the United States. Truman. Democrat Harry Truman.
And if not for the creation of Israel, the desert wind could blow from North Africa to southwest Asia unimpeded by anything as tawdry as a voting booth.
Truman’s decision to support the UN partition plan that put Israel on the map was fought by many of the wise men in his State Department and the rest of the foreign policy establishment. They thought it was a big mistake.
