Michael Ledeen
Michael Ledeen
Michael Arthur Ledeenis an American historian, philosopher, neoconservative foreign policy analyst, and writer. He is a former consultant to the United States National Security Council, the United States Department of State, and the United States Department of Defense. He held the Freedom Scholar chair at the American Enterprise Institute where he was a scholar for twenty years and now holds the similarly named chair at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 August 1941
CountryUnited States of America
So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.
Punish all the guilty parties, whoever they are, and do everything possible to prevent anything of the sort happening again.
I think Hadley is to Rice as Scowcroft was to Kissinger; not inclined to think or act independently.
Like Afghanistan before it, Iraq is only one theater in a regional war. We were attacked by a network of terrorist organizations supported by several countries, of whom the most important were Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.
China is a civilization pretending to be a nation
Fighting back against Iran is difficult and costly. No American president from Carter to Obama has been willing to take it on.
The "Axis of Evil" was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.
It's hard not to be in favor of taking down monsters.
If you're convinced that you face bad options, then by all means take the least bad.
Iranians hate Arabs. They're a fairly well-educated population and they have centuries of experience with self-government.
The Iranians excel at identifying potential recruits for terrorist attacks, and then recruiting and training them.