Bookworm on Aug 15 2012 | Filed under: Blogfriends
Tweet I have long been singularly fortunate in that Barry Rubin periodically corresponds with me. He is a light in the blogosphere: informed, brilliant, objective, open-minded, decent, and kind. Read any one of his posts about the Middle East, and you will learn more than you will learn in a year of reading the New [...]
Bookworm on Jun 15 2012 | Filed under: Egypt
Tweet When it comes to the Middle East, I’m hard-put to think of a more astute, knowledgeable observer than Barry Rubin. In light of the Egyptian court ruling striking down large parts of the recent elections, and the military’s subsequent power move, he’s not sanguine about Egypt’s future: The Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court has just [...]
Bookworm on Jan 31 2012 | Filed under: Iran, Ron Paul
Tweet According to Barry Rubin, who has forgotten more about the Middle East than most people (including State Department employees) will know in a lifetime, Ron Paul is Wrong Paul when it comes to Iran. First, what’s happened in the last decade is irrelevant, since Iran hatred long preceded that. The real issue is whether [...]
Bookworm on Dec 03 2011 | Filed under: Israel
Tweet I’ve never doubted Obama’s fundamental anti-Israel beliefs, nor have I ever thought he’s on a right, or even a sane, track in the Middle East. As much as anything, though, my feelings regarding Obama’s Israel/Middle East attitudes were predicated on a gut attitude resulting from his pre-presidency friendships and his execrable Cairo speech. Now, [...]
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