Verum Serum (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
Ahmedinejad is visiting NY again, where he is afforded the right to speak and, as he’s done many times before, try to sound reasonable to a mostly fawning press. Michael Ledeen provides the perfect antidote: I’m writing to you about death, one of your favorite themes. Your adult life has revolved around it… You’re a veteran of [...]
USA Partisan (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
I’m writing to you about death, one of your favorite themes. Your adult life has revolved around it. You’re from the Revolutionary Guards, the military organization that was created in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon in the 1970s. Read ...
Alex Constantine's Blacklist (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
by Jim Lobe www.antiwar.com August 25, 2008 I was really surprised by the news, first reported by Laura Rozen on her blog on Mother Jones , that Michael Ledeen, who had been under Richard Perle’s wing at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) for some 20 years, has moved to the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy (FDD) and taken his “Freedom” chair with him. I have no inside information...
Save The GOP (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
Michael Ledeen, writing for NRO describes what many of us already know, but are too uncomfortable to say: The CIA is a joke. It is but a pale reflection of what it was intended to be. Ledeen recommends anyone with an interest in the CIA read Ishmael Jones’ book, The Human Factor: Inside the CIA’s [...]
David Frum's Diary (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
Michael Ledeen has a story of an American visiting some exotic ethnic restaurant in outer Queens. (Mongolian? Ethiopian? I forget.) On the menu is a s... . . .
Across the Great Divide (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. – G.K. Chesterton Every 10 years or so, the US needs to pick up some small, crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business. – Michael Ledeen [h/t Information Clearing House ] ***** I was looking at this graph of average income...
USA Partisan (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
For many centuries, it was taken for granted that no modern country could move from dictatorship to democracy without considerable violence. The first wave of democratic revolution–the last quarter of the eighteenth century–saw every Western country undergo some political spasm aimed against the traditional monarchies. The two biggest events were the American and French Revolutions, both of which were...
Oh My News (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
In his book Perilous Statecraft , Michael Ledeen, a former consultant to the National Security Council, writes that US President Ronald Reagan was so eager to gain the release of the American hostages that he once told...
Wizblog (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
An open letter to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from Michael Ledeen....
The Corner (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Yuval Levin and Michael Ledeen have it right. McCain looks like a decisive man of action and Obama looks like a guy who prefers to vote 'present' in the midst of a crisis. Obama himself declared that the country may be on the verge of the greatest economic calamity since the Great Depression.Yet instead of taking just 24-48 hours to tend to his day job and deal with the largest piece...
BizzyBlog (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
But I Don’t Have Any Time For (as ‘Net access continues to be subject to the ability to wander): National treasure Michael Ledeen, about “The One” I refer to as “Mr. BOOHOO-OUCH” (Barack O-bombaOverseas Hussein “Obambi” Obama - Objectively Unfit Coddler of Haters) — “Maybe It’s Obama Who’s Too Old to Be President.” Definitely [...]
Britannica Blog (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
... inspector, and veteran foreign correspondents Stephen Kinzer and Barbara Slavin , to those of Michael Ledeen of the American Enterprise Institute, author of The Iranian Time Bomb . Check out the forum here ...
Larisa Alexandrovna's At Largely (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
... "It was, 'Be on notice. We may call upon you soon.' It was sent out on many channels."' Wait, but Michael Ledeen told me Osama was long dead. So is he or is he not? He can't be both (well, waling dead he could be, but those are just so damn rare these days). Even more interesting, um, a single source is leaking this now, not in August when first finding this out, but now, just now...
Daimnation! (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
Michael Ledeen on a new film about women in Iran: Friday morning, courtesy of Senator Rick Santorum, I attended a private screening of a new Iranian movie produced and directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh entitled The Stoning of Sorayah M. It's...
ShrinkWrapped (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
... Robert Avrech has a classic picture to accompany the suggestion) and includes this response from Michael Ledeen (worth reading in full): Apparently not a single one of them is willing to say that we've been talking to Iran for thirty years, with no apparent positive result. It does not require any particular skill at prognostication to recognize that Iran is the leading contender...
