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Iranian Crisis Escalates

January 20, 2012 • Category: Featured, Foreign Affairs, News & Views, Srdja Trifkovic

By pursuing sanctions similar in intent and likely consequences to FDR’s sanctions against Japan in 1941, the Obama administration may produce similar outcomes. That would be a disaster for all concerned.

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    • Michael Yurick: I too love the sensibility of Mr. Reavis, among others here.

    • Patrick Kinnell: Beautifully put Mr. Reavis

    • robert reavis: Tom has probably enetered into the great silence of our old civilization, musing and wondering, hearing Mass at dawn,...

    • Patrick Kinnell: Perhaps the Winter school in Italy might explain the silence??

    • Gilbert Jacobi: Yes, the silence of the editor in chief is becoming deafening ….. natives are growing restless, hungry …. On...