Comments on: More on the Iran attack https://thenewneo.com/2024/04/15/more-on-the-iran-attack/ A blog about political change, among other things Wed, 17 Apr 2024 10:22:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2024/04/15/more-on-the-iran-attack/#comment-2734699 Wed, 17 Apr 2024 10:22:16 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=133680#comment-2734699 Should be “…say something similar about…”

]]> By: Barry+Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2024/04/15/more-on-the-iran-attack/#comment-2734693 Wed, 17 Apr 2024 09:05:14 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=133680#comment-2734693 Well, yes and no.
For the Soviets, many facts were in fact deemed , um, undesirable (but not in all cases—e.g., science and technology).

And look what happened to the USSR.

One could say something about the National Socialists.

“Interesting” and/or most curious that—and I think this is Friedman’s point—today’s “cutting edge” activists/theorists/philosophers/academics seem to have selected the above two as their templates, models, heroes…

]]> By: Richard F Cook https://thenewneo.com/2024/04/15/more-on-the-iran-attack/#comment-2734661 Wed, 17 Apr 2024 01:03:03 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=133680#comment-2734661 Barry

After reading the article about Orwell we see, even today, how useless a thing a fact may be. Like economics where spending is always portrayed as being made rationally those decisions are really made with caprice and whim.

]]> By: Paul in Boston https://thenewneo.com/2024/04/15/more-on-the-iran-attack/#comment-2734633 Tue, 16 Apr 2024 22:30:16 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=133680#comment-2734633 I don’t understand what Iran was up to. The attack came from Iran which is 1,000 miles away from Israel. Even with missiles that flew at 2000 mph that’s a half hour warning. Every other munition was even slower requiring an hour or more to get to their target. Was this some kind of stupid feel good statement for the mullahs?

The Israelis will not bother with some kind of long range retaliation on Iran. Instead they are going make major attacks on local Iranian partners in Lebanon, Syria, and maybe Iraq.

]]> By: Miguel cervantes https://thenewneo.com/2024/04/15/more-on-the-iran-attack/#comment-2734543 Tue, 16 Apr 2024 13:44:41 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=133680#comment-2734543 Another sterling product of charlottesville no longer fit for hollywood square

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2024/04/15/more-on-the-iran-attack/#comment-2734541 Tue, 16 Apr 2024 13:38:47 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=133680#comment-2734541 Related:
…some pondering (in a nutshell)…
“…STUNNING; How the US tried to make sure Iran’s set-piece missile attack against Israel protect it from an Israeli response”—
https://justthenews.com/podcasts/bauer-and-rose-podcast/bauer-and-rose-stunning-how-us-tried-make-sure-irans-set-piece

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2024/04/15/more-on-the-iran-attack/#comment-2734514 Tue, 16 Apr 2024 11:05:31 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=133680#comment-2734514 Not only has the remarkable Mr. Kirby denied it.
He’s called it “nonsense”(!)

And he’s absolutely right: how could Iran possibly “warn” “Biden” of something “Biden” agreed—perhaps even suggested—that Iran do?

(Not to worry much: merely the illustrious “Biden” gang unleashing, once again, its rhetorical skills…

]]> By: Jerry https://thenewneo.com/2024/04/15/more-on-the-iran-attack/#comment-2734513 Tue, 16 Apr 2024 10:54:21 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=133680#comment-2734513 Have read that Iran, via a third party, detailed in advance the scope, targets and timing of their actions to the Biden Administration and that information was forwarded to Israel.
Our illustrious Mr. Kirby has denied this.
Any thoughts or additional information?

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2024/04/15/more-on-the-iran-attack/#comment-2734507 Tue, 16 Apr 2024 09:55:22 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=133680#comment-2734507 Orwell, continued:

Forgetting one of Orwell’s better known dicta, Katie Couric seems to clearly endorse MAGA….
“Katie Couric slammed as ‘out of touch’ for claiming Trump’s MAGA driven by ‘anti-intellectualism”—
https://nypost.com/2024/04/15/us-news/katie-couric-slammed-as-out-of-touch-for-claiming-trumps-maga-driven-by-anti-intellectualism/

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2024/04/15/more-on-the-iran-attack/#comment-2734502 Tue, 16 Apr 2024 08:19:18 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=133680#comment-2734502 Matti Friedman is the latest to take a stab at Orwell and succeeds, overall, magnificently….
“Homage to Orwell”—
https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/literature/16061/homage-to-orwell/#
(Includes some worthy revelations about a recent Orwell biography, some surprising ones, for me at least, regarding William Dalrymple’s responses to the latest Gaza war and some not so surprising ones regarding—sigh—Andrew Sullivan…)
H/T Powerline blog.

+ Bonuses:
From Roger L. Simon…
“Today’s Antisemitism: Liberal Jews Face Harsh Reality”
https://archive.ph/ji1LS
“Viva Diversity!”—
https://blazingcatfur.ca/2024/04/15/viva-diversity-3/
“Will The West Wait Until Iran Tries To Obliterate Israel?”
https://blazingcatfur.ca/2024/04/15/will-the-west-wait-until-iran-tries-to-obliterate-israel/
H/T Blazingcatfur blog for all three.

Who could have ever suspected that “Fundamental Transformation”—embraced so enthusiastically—actually means…suicide?

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