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WASHINGTON -- On Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not just reject President Obama's latest feckless floating nuclear deadline. He spat on it, declaring that Iran "will continue resisting" until the U.S. has gotten rid of its 8,000 nuclear warheads.
So ends 2009, the year of "engagement," of the extended hand, of the gratuitous apology -- and of spinning centrifuges, two-stage rockets and a secret enrichment facility that brought Iran materially closer to becoming a nuclear power.
We lost a year. But it was not just any year. It was a...
2009: The Year of Living Fecklessly
"wonderous white race .. yeah .. right .. that's the race that brought us the crusades, the inquisition, every major war in history .. the Holacaust.. the Klan ....Oklahoma City.. Jonestown .. ..."
I don't believe in any race's superiority over another, but it's simply not true that "whites" have started every major war in history. You cannot possibly have read much history and make that claim.
The first historical work, written by Herodotus, tells the story of the Persian king (I've forgotten the name, either Cyrus or Darius) leading a million man army to conquer Greece. Persia is today Iran. The Punic Wars were between Carthage and Rome. Carthage is now Tunisia (Northern Africa) and it is very unlikely...