Post Tagged with: "Middle East violence"

March 27, 2012 08:25

Obama’s foreign appeasement weakness has US enemies “licking their chops”

Now Obama is trying to give missile secrets to the Russians. Is this what he hinted at that would have to wait until after the election? Obama already gave away our missile defense and superiority in the START treaty.

February 27, 2012 05:06

Dollar, Gold and Gasoline

Now, with Iran, Israel, U.S. and Europe exchanging sanctions, threats in daily new headlines, it is hard to imagine anyone in the business world would miss the connection between surging oil, gasoline prices, and escalating tensions over Iran’s nuclear program.

February 22, 2012 09:06

Crude Oil vs. Iran: Who Blinks First?

But with Iran still a volatile unknown, analysts say oil could continue to rise and expect to see gasoline at $4 a gallon, and some even see $5, heading into the summer driving season. If the analysts were right, $4 or $5 gasoline by summer time would certainly be detrimental to the nascent U.S. recovery, and debt-troubled Europe, which could bring demand destruction pushing oil prices back down.

February 20, 2012 09:44

Iran Is Now Helping Train The Syrian Navy

Israel and Egypt watched closely as two Iranian warships docked at a Syrian port on Saturday after crossing the Suez Canal. – Business Insider

February 20, 2012 07:05

How the U.S.-Iran Standoff Looks From Israel

Officials in Tel Aviv have tried to alert the West to the dangers of a nuclear Iran for more than a decade. They argued that Iran would cause the technology to proliferate in the region as states such as Turkey, Egypt and Saudi Arabia sought such weapons, turning a multipolar nuclear Middle East into a strategic nightmare. A nuclear-armed Iran would strengthen its hegemony in the energy sector by its mere location along the oil-rich Arabian Gulf and the Caspian Basin. – Bloomberg.com

February 20, 2012 05:13

Israeli strike on Iran imminent says former Netanyahu chief of staff

Naftali Bennett former chief of staff to Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on Huckabee about Israel’s potential military strike at Iran. Israeli’s are not confident that the Obama administration will support them in a conflict with Iran. They have good reason with Obama’s support for the Muslim Brotherhood uprisings and his seeming disdain for Israel.

December 8, 2011 05:59

Egyptian activist to Obama: Stop Supporting the Muslim Brotherhood

Egyptian political activist Cynthia Farahat says the administration “should stop supporting the Muslim Brotherhood. The founders of Hamas and al qaeda are not moderate and they should not be engaged in talks with them.” … “They [Muslim Brotherhood] should be on the list of terrorist organizations”

December 8, 2011 05:59

Egyptian activist to Obama: Stop Supporting the Muslim Brotherhood

Egyptian political activist Cynthia Farahat says the administration “should stop supporting the Muslim Brotherhood. The founders of Hamas and al qaeda are not moderate and they should not be engaged in talks with them.” … “They [Muslim Brotherhood] should be on the list of terrorist organizations” In a Q&A session, Rep. Joe Pitts asked Egyptian political activist Cynthia Farahat a question about US policy toward her country. Ms. Farahat testifies before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission in the House […]

November 30, 2011 05:42

Desperate Middle East Regimes

The fact that a new U.S. oil refinery has not been built since the 1970s is testimony to a massive national failure to anticipate and prepare what is occurring in the Middle East. We are a decade or more behind the curve.

November 28, 2011 06:31

Amb Bolton on Middle East – “A lot to worry about”

“Conditions of near anarchy are not conducive to a stable democratic representative process.” – Bolton. Obama’s Arab Spring has created anarchy and made things worse in the Middle East.