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Lula's Dance With the Despots

By Mary O'Grady June 15, 2010 @ 7:19am

 

BY MARY ANASTASIA O'GRADY

 

It probably wasn't long after we all got kicked out of the garden that Brazil began dreaming about becoming a serious country and a player on the world stage. Now, just as it seemed like the eternal Brazilian dream was about to come true, President Lula da Silva is snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

 

Bra…

Hatoyama's Resignation

By Worldpress Org June 11, 2010 @ 7:01am

 

Japanese Prime Minister Hatoyama suddenly resigned last week, citing his inability to remove a U.S. airbase from Okinawa as a reason.

 

 

"Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's resignation after just eight months in office has triggered shock across Japan and raised new doubts about the country's political stability," wrote Dr. Sheila A. Smith, senior specialist for Japan Studi…

Letting Israel hang

By John Bolton June 7, 2010 @ 9:23am

In less than a week, the Obama adminis tration left Israel hanging out to dry three separate times.

 

Media coverage of the "flotilla" incident has ignored this critical shift in US policy. But it's a safe bet that America's adversaries, especially the terrorists, understand it all too well. Worse yet, President Obama's visible discomfort in defending hard-pressed US interests around the world is only growin…

Don't mourn the euro

By John Bolton May 26, 2010 @ 1:13pm

The chaos in world financial markets over the stability of the euro calmed somewhat late last week. But the con ditions causing the European Union crisis -- the solvency and even creditworthiness of many governments using the euro -- are far from resolved, and the next stages may be even more perilous.

 

Realize first that, from the outset, the "common currency" project was as political as economic. European…

Iran and North Korea March On

By John Bolton May 25, 2010 @ 12:25pm

Last week, while meandering toward a fourth U.N. Security Council sanctions resolution against Iran, Washington was blindsided by the revival of a previously discarded plan to enrich some of Iran's uranium to higher levels for use in the Tehran research reactor. This proposal—a good deal for Iran when it was proposed last year by the misguided Obama administration—is even better in its latest iteration and does nothing to sto…