Honduras’ change of President

Tim Worstall gives a simple answer to a simple question that he finds in the Guardian:

Does the rightwing coup in Honduras represent a return to the days of rule by violence in South America?
No.
Honduras is in Central America.
Really, where does the Guardian find these people so willing to jump at any chance to excuse the [...]

News, comment, BBC, Iran, Steyn etc.

BBC covers Iran like so….
“Until recently, the United States was singled out as the Islamic Revolution’s principal opponent. This has changed.”
“By offering an ‘open hand’ to Iran since taking over as president, Barack Obama has challenged Iran’s traditional view of the ‘Great Satan’.”
“Britain, almost by default, has emerged as the target of Iranian ire.”
Thus managing [...]

The Ayatollah’s Speech: Georgia, Waco, Little Satan and the Zionists

Kicks off with some world-gone-to-pot style rambling:
(Ayatollah Khamanei) Remember god,
Iran has gone through a lot since the revolution
Any of them could have put us in turmoil
Even from our neighbors
(Allah o Akbar)
Our youth are in a materialistic world
In a time of turmoil
They need to understand spirituality,
They need to get back to spirituality,
But they don’t know how, [...]

Message from the Great Satan

Iowahawk presents an excellent parody of Barack Obama’s foreign policy stance:
Greetings. As president of United States — or, if you prefer, the Great Satan — I have have been following with keen interest the vigorous post-election debate and vibrant political dialogue which has been taking place in your great and noble Islamic Republic of Iran [...]

The World’s Oldest Hatred (in France)

via Hot Air we find:
This video is even more grotesque than you think. It was shot in a suburb of Paris called Aulnay-sous-Bois. The next-door town to Aulnay is called Drancy, about 1 mile away. Drancy was used by the Nazis between 1942-1944 as a deportation holding camp for the Jews of Paris prior to [...]

(Awful) socialists & (awful) Obama

Empty heads vote Socialists in and empty pockets vote them out.
From here.
True. Also, here’s a good discussion by Victor Davis Hanson of how Obama is getting away with continuing Bush’s security policies:
At some point, Obama must answer why waterboarding mass-murderers and beheaders like Khalid Sheik Mohammed is wrong, while executing by missile attack (no writs, [...]

Boutrous Boutrous-Ghali

Via National Review I came across this al-Jazeera interview:

Interviewer: Dr. Ghali, don’t you live in Egypt?
Boutrous-Ghali: Yes, I do.
Interviewer: Don’t you see all the problems?
Boutrous-Ghali: These problems exist all over the world, not only in Egypt.
Interviewer: All over the world?
Boutrous-Ghali: Yes.
Interviewer: Something like the al-Ahram strike takes place all over the world?
Boutrous-Ghali: Yes, there are [...]

Nothing special about Britain?

Lo, and idiocy spewed forth from the totally rubbish State Department of the totally rubbish Obama administration:
The real views of many in Obama administration were laid bare by a State Department official involved in planning the Brown visit, who reacted with fury when questioned by The Sunday Telegraph about why the event was so low-key.
The [...]

Foreign policy song

Song featuring Tony Blair, Ariel Sharon, Joschka Fischer, Donald Rumsfeld and many more of your favourite figures from the world of 21st century foreign policy.
By my friend Joseph Cotton, from the album “Kingston a Run Red“
Foreign_policy_song.wma

Obama, Bush, America, Jews, Hamas.

First it's no bad thing to see the first ethnic minority President of the USA. He does remind me of Tony Blair when he speaks, but given that so many Americans have told me over the past decade how lucky I was to have Tony Blair as Prime Minister I'm willing to let them have [...]