Having studied the Middle East professionally for 35 years, written or edited more than 40 books on the region, and having a PhD in Middle East history, let me make it perfectly clear: Glenn Beck, who is holding several rallies in Israel this week, has a better grasp of Middle East politics than most Western experts, not to mention Western leaders.
Via Kathy Shaidle
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NATO just handed al-qaeda what they always wanted…
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Good News: Libyan Research Center Has Vast Stockpile Of Nuclear Material Needed To Make A “Dirty Bomb”…
(Reuters) — A research center near Tripoli has stocks of nuclear material that could be used to make a “dirty bomb,” a former senior U.N. inspector said on Wednesday, warning of possible looting during turmoil in Libya.
Seeking to mend ties with the West, Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi agreed in 2003 to abandon efforts to acquire nuclear, chemical and biological weapons — a move that brought him in from the cold and helped end decades of Libyan isolation.
A six-month popular insurgency has now forced Gaddafi to abandon his stronghold in the Libyan capital but continued gunfire suggests the rebels have not completely triumphed yet.
Olli Heinonen, head of U.N. nuclear safeguards inspections worldwide until last year, pointed to substantial looting that took place at Iraq’s Tuwaitha atomic research facility near Baghdad after Saddam Hussein was toppled in 2003.
In Iraq, “most likely due to pure luck, the story did not end in a radiological disaster,” Heinonen said.
In Libya, “nuclear security concerns still linger,” the former deputy director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in an online commentary.
Libya’s uranium enrichment program was dismantled after Gaddafi renounced weapons of mass destruction eight years ago. Sensitive material and documentation including nuclear weapons design information were confiscated.
But the country’s Tajoura research center continues to stock large quantities of radioisotopes, radioactive waste and low-enriched uranium fuel after three decades of nuclear research and radioisotope production, Heinonen said.
Yes, he certainly is.
Yes he certainly does grasp what is going on. He’s been right about so many things the past two years, and he’s correct on the middle east as well.
The disapproval of trollex is the loudest vote of confidence. Its settled, Beck rules.
Oh, and he’s right. Bwaha!
Phantom, exactly. Some just can’t stand the truth.
Yes, some just can’t stand the truth 🙂 I’m sorry that your hero has turned out to be a blithering nutbag, but that’s just he way it is. You’d be better off finding someone new, instead of constantly making up excuses for this fool.
Well then … I guess we can expect an extended evaluation of Alex’ insights and thoughts on the middle east …. after he hosts the top rated opinion show on television ….. after decades of hard work in the field of broadcast … after the numerous widely read and commercially successful books he has written ….
Ah, the good ol’ appeal-to-popularity fallacy. “He can’t be crazy, he’s got a large following!”. Right 🙂 Mohammed must have been completely sane and rational, too.
I don’t imagine you’d be willing to dazzle us with your insights into this turbulent region. Or perhaps take issue with some specific pronouncement of Beck’s. If not, then you might choose to enlighten us with your criticism of the linked blog post (assuming you bothered to read it).
Alex, this is not the first time you’ve made that crack about Beck. You do it every time Kate uses that tagline!
“I don’t imagine you’d be willing to dazzle us with your insights into this turbulent region”
Take too long. Beck gets a lot of it right, and some of it horribly wrong. The fact that he gets some things right doesn’t change the fact that he’s a lunatic.
“Or perhaps take issue with some specific pronouncement of Beck’s”
Heh. I could give you pages of quotes. The hard part is picking only a few. Here’s a try:
“When I see a 9/11 victim family on television, or whatever, I’m just like, ‘Oh shut up’ I’m so sick of them because they’re always complaining.”
“I’m thinking about killing Michael Moore, and I’m wondering if I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it. … No, I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choking the life out. Is this wrong? I stopped wearing my What Would Jesus — band — Do, and I’ve lost all sense of right and wrong now.”
“Al Gore’s not going to be rounding up Jews and exterminating them. It is the same tactic, however. The goal is different. The goal is globalization…And you must silence all dissenting voices. That’s what Hitler did. That’s what Al Gore, the U.N., and everybody on the global warming bandwagon [are doing].”
“So here you have Barack Obama going in and spending the money on embryonic stem cell research. … Eugenics. In case you don’t know what Eugenics led us to: the Final Solution. A master race! A perfect person. … The stuff that we are facing is absolutely frightening.”
“I’m full fledged crazy nuts, you know it and I know it, so here it is: this is what’s coming America; depression and revolution. That’s what’s coming. They’re gonna eat the rich!”
If what he says weren’t bad enough, how he says it makes it clear he’s a few rounds short of a full magazine. I’m pretty sure he must have attended the Alex Jones School of Journalism.
“So here you have Barack Obama going in and spending the money on embryonic stem cell research. … Eugenics. In case you don’t know what Eugenics led us to: the Final Solution. A master race! A perfect person. … The stuff that we are facing is absolutely frightening.”
Yeah, crazy stuff Trollex. Assuming Beck said that, anyway. What factual errors are there in that statement btw?
And isn’t your mum calling you to dinner now?