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SAUDI ARABIA CONSIDERS THE NUCLEAR OPTION

Lending some weight to my speculation yesterday regarding Saudi pressure on Russia over Russian help with Iran’s semi-covert nuclear bomb program was the following article in The Guardian

I BEAT THE COMPUTER…BUT CAN YOU ??!?

The first ever mildly amusing game challenge on Zenpundit. ( Errr…let’s hope this works )

OATH OF ALLEGIENCE…SORT OF

For reasons obscure to me, some governmental bureaucrat decided it would be nifty to revise the Oath of Allegience that new citizens swear to de-emphasize, well, the concept of allegience to the United States. The bureaucrats have backpedaled in the light of publicity but their language indicates that this asinine p.r. proposal designed to send all the wrong signals to prospective citizens is far from dead.

I’m wondering how far we will need to dig into this story before we hit either a Clintonite appointee who burrowed into the Civil Service or an overpaid, outside, ” diversity-consultant ” with the usual patriotically challenged bad advice. Did anyone really ask them to do this or did certain parties decide they knew better than the unwashed masses in flyover country ?

Call or write your Congressman. This may be a symbolic point but it isn’t a small one.

LEDEEN ON THE IRANIAN BOMB

Micheal Ledeen critiques the Bush strategy; meanwhile the power struggle within Iran has the regime zigzagging over cooperation with the IAEA.

The concerted pressure by the US, the EU has been helpful in isolating Teheran on the nuclear issue- of greater practical value is the limited pullback on furthering Iran’s nuclear ambitions by Russia which has agreed to accept spent fuel from Iranian reactors. Why this is I’m not certain though one possibility is pressure from the Saudis who might not be comfortable with a nuclear armed Shiite neighbor. The Saudis could sink the Russian economy by upping their production of crude oil and thus causing Moscow’s prime source of foreign exchange to plunge ruinously.

LEFT-WING JOURNALISTS IN NEED OF A GOOD RESEARCH ASSISTANT

The Guardian opines on Iran’s supposedly legitimate security need fornuclear weapon putting the venerable left-wing British paper foursquare in favor of blatant cheating on the Nonproliferation Treaty by Islamist autocrats.

Perhaps someone could alert the Guardian’s editors that Iranian nuclear ambitions predate the administration of the much despised cowboy George W. Bush. That the CIA wrote a warning report back in 1992 on Iranian nuke programs and that their effort to join the nuclear club stretches back to the Shah’s regime.