Tag: "Diplomacy"
The Little Honduras That Could
Well, good on them. Defying a boycott plea by deposed President Manuel Zelaya, Hondurans flocked to the polls in unexpectedly large numbers Sunday to hand a convincing victory to Porfirio Pepe Lobo Sosa of the opposition National Party. The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) at 9:20 p.m. EST gave Mr. Lobo, 61, 315,963 votes (52.7 percent [...]
Aw, Who Needs that Whole Senate Ratification Anyhow?
Errr…is this legal? MOSCOW — With the clock running out on a new US-Russian arms treaty before the previous Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, expires on December 5, a senior White House official said Sunday said that the difficulty of the task might mean temporarily bypassing the Senate’s constitutional role in ratifying treaties by [...]
The Tehran Tyrants Called Out by Fellow Clerics
Well, you know what they say, when you’ve lost Qum, you’ve lost the election. CAIRO — An important group of religious leaders in Iran called the disputed presidential election and the new government illegitimate on Saturday, an act of defiance against the country’s supreme leader and the most public sign of a major split in [...]
President Obama’s Terrorist-Fighting FAIL
I’m having a difficult time figuring out how, exactly, the Obama administration figures that exporting Islamic terrorists to the island of Palau is a successful way to fight terrorism. It seems to me that detaining highly-radicalized trained terrorists, fattening them up on halal victuals and giving them top-shelf health care, then turning them loose on [...]
Diplomacy So Clever, You Could Pin a Tail on It and Call It A Weasel
You know what we could really use right about now? We could use a revision to our tax laws so Byzantine that foreign banks would consider not letting Americans open accounts with them for fear of running afoul of our IRS. That sort of thing would instill heaping loads of confidence in our economy when [...]
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