By Benjamin Shapiro http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=61117

Yesterday morning, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared that Iran was busily installing 6,000 new centrifuges for development of nuclear material. Further, Ahmadinejad stated, Iran would begin testing a new type of centrifuge that works five times faster than ordinary centrifuges.

Yesterday afternoon, Democratic presidential front-runner Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., declared that the U.S. should engage in a “diplomatic surge” in Iraq. In particular, he said, America should embrace talks with Iran. “I do not believe we are going to be able to stabilize the situation without that,” Obama told Gen. David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker. “I continue to believe that the original decision to go into Iraq was a massive strategic blunder, that the two problems you pointed out – al-Qaida in Iraq and increased Iranian influence in the region – are a direct result of that original decision.”

Never mind the unbelievable arrogance of a foreign policy boob like Barack Obama lecturing the two most knowledgeable on-the-ground figures in Iraq on the best military strategy for Iraq.

Barack Obama’s scariest characteristic isn’t his ego, though its sheer size threatens to shift the globe out of orbit. Obama’s scariest characteristic is his Continue Reading »

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