Jeffrey A. Setaro

Political & Cultural Commentary from a Constitutional Conservative.

International Affairs

U.S., France, Germany and Others Walk Out During Ahmadinejad’s Israel-bashing UN Speech

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It’s time for me to eat a little crow – feathers and all – here… I didn’t think the U.S. delegation would walk out during Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s address to the United Nations General Assembly this evening. But they did… along with the delegations of at least a dozen other nations: France on Wednesday […]

Will the U.S. Join Canada and Germany in Ahmadinejad Walkout?

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Canada and Germany have apparently head enough of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Holocaust-denying rants and virulent anti-Semitism. The Canadian government is planning to protest his presence at the UN today by having their entire delegation walking out of the chamber when Ahmadinejad takes the podium: Canada will boycott Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech at the […]

Pres. Obama Backs Offshore Drilling… Just Not in U.S. Waters

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I was going to comment on this Wall Street Journal editorial yesterday but I didn’t get to it… In short the Obama Administration has finally embraced offshore oil drill, unfortunately it’s not in the U.S.: You read that headline correctly. Unfortunately, the Obama Administration is financing oil exploration off Brazil. The U.S. is going to […]

A Military Coup in Honduras? Not Quite.

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As is all to often the case our pop culture obsessed, sound bite focused media is either ignoring or deliberately misreporting the facts of what’s happening in Honduras. If you haven’t Mary Anastasia O’Grady’s column on Honduras in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal you should. In short what happening in Honduras is not a military coup […]

Her Name was Neda

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Congressman Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI) lays a smackdown on the Mullahs and President Obama: Neda Agha Soltan was 26, and to those new she was ‘a beam of light‘… Contrast the statements and actions of this administration with those of Ronald Reagan. Reagan was unequivocal in his support of the of the Polish Solidarity movement, this […]

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu Lays Out Conditions for Palestinian State

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If you’ve been paying attention to the news over the last couple of days you’ve no doubt seen the headlines screaming “Netanyahu Says Yes to Palestinian State”… As is all to often the case you have to wade through several paragraphs to get the substance of what Prime Minister Netanyahu said. He did not give […]

North Korea Abandons 1953 Armistice…

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I’ve been expecting this: May 27 (Bloomberg) — North Korea threatened a military response to South Korean participation in a U.S.-led program to seize weapons of mass destruction, and said it will no longer abide by the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War. “The Korean People’s Army will not be bound to the Armistice […]

Roxana Saberi Released

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Roxana Saberi, a 32 year American journalist who had been convicted of ‘espionage’ has reportedly been released from jail by Iranian authorities. Ms. Saberi had lived and worked in Iran for more than six years before she was  and charged with “cooperating with a hostile state” in January. From the Telegraph: Lawyers for the 32-year […]

John McCain: 9-11 Hijackers Entered U.S. From Canada

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Oh jeez… First it was Janet Napolitano now it’s John McCain repeating a the highly dubious claim that the 9-11 hijackers entered the United Sates through Canada: What’s up with Arizona politicians? Arizona Sen. John McCain made the dubious claim Friday that Sept. 11 hijackers entered the United States through Canada — just days after […]

WSJ: Convoys Are an Answer to Piracy

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Peter Zimmerman has a must read Op-Ed in today’s Wall Street Journal, in it Zimmerman argues convincingly that convoys are an answer to the threat posed by Somali pirates: To be sure, in different circumstances naval patrols have worked. Towards the end of the 20th century, pirates in the Strait of Malacca, which links the […]

Somali Pirates Hijack U.S. Flagged Container Ship – Updated

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This was inevitable: Somali pirates hijacked a U.S.-flagged, Danish-owned container ship on Wednesday with 20 American crew on board in a major escalation in attacks at sea off the Horn of Africa nation, officials said. Andrew Mwangura, coordinator of the Mombasa-based East African Seafarers’ Assistance Programme, told Reuters the 17,000 tonne Maersk Alabama had been […]

Confidence Inspiring: Obama Fumbled Brown Visit Because He’s Overwhelmed

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Oh Lord, apparently Barack Obama and his staff didn’t fumble last week’s visit by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown out of malice… They fumbled it out of shear inexperience and/or incompetence. From the Telegraph: Sources close to the White House say Mr Obama and his staff have been “overwhelmed” by the economic meltdown and have […]

Smoot-Hawley Rides Again???

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The Washington Post has a detailed report on protectionist language in the Democrat’s pork laden stimulus bill that could trigger a trade war: The stimulus bill passed by the House last night contains a controversial provision that would mostly bar foreign steel and iron from the infrastructure projects laid out by the $819 billion economic […]