MILNET Opinion -

Title	Date	Brief Description
The Myth of Oppression	Feb 2005	Looks at ten myths associated with Israel and Palestinians and includes myths that bring the U.S. into that frame of reference and resulting violence.
The U.N. Useless	Sep 2004	Only in the idealist's unreal world is the U.N. an effective organizations. To the realist, it is less than useless. But try to propose an alternative.
Classic Russian Pattern	Dec 2004	Taking a casual look at current acts by Russian President Vladmir Putin will remind you of the former Soviet Union. Are Putin's acts against the democracy of Russia leading back to those evil days?
No One Asked Us	Sep 2004	Stan Coerr's excellent piece - No one asked the Iraqi soldiers what they thought of the Iraq situation, why its important or why they put their lives on the line. Well, no more, Stan gives it to us with gusto. This, by the way, is one of our all time top two articles on MILNET.
Iranian Death March	Sep 2004	Iran continues to march along a path that will lead to its government's destruction. Civilized nations concerned with the duty to protect its citizens from WMD will eventually tire of diplomatic gestures and blow the WMD plants to hell and gone, and then turn to look at the government that created the threat in the first place. That government will not, can not, survive.
The Terrorist Bomb	Sep 2004	With the United Nations doing it's usual job of helping their deception, Iran has brazenly declared to the world their ultimate machismo. It is clear the next sound we will hear from them is "Boom". Big bada boom. And we aren't talking about the Sopranos either.
Axis Closes Ranks	Feb 2005	Not too unexpectedly, the Axis of Evil is closing ranks. Today, Syria and Iran announced the beginnings of a new alliance to "build a common front".
Laws, Regulations, and Rules	Jan 2005	"In 1995, the Justice Department embraced flawed legal reasoning, imposing a series of restrictions on the FBI that went beyond what the law required. The 1995 Guidelines and the procedures developed around them imposed draconian barriers to communications between the law enforcement and intelligence communities. The wall "effectively excluded" prosecutors from intelligence investigations. The wall left intelligence agents afraid to talk with criminal prosecutors or agents. In 1995, the Justice Department designed a system destined to fail." - John Ashcroft, U.S. Attorney General.
Hillary Dillary	Dec 2004	Hillary dillary dock, the Senator ran out the clock. With little time to dither, she's got the Republicans in a lather, the next Demo to blather.
Defective Liberal Logic Disease	Oct 2004	There remains in this country, a disease of the mind that continues to pump out not only fictional historical events to support their position but an exceeding proclivity to spout forth with logic that defies intelligence. The disease is DLLD.
Iran Joins the Cast of Irrational	Jul 2004	In what can only be described as bizarre, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the top religious leader of the government in Iraq says he believes the U.S. and Israel are conducting kidnappings and beheadings in Iraq. Joining the irrational leaders of North Korea who accuse the U.S. of making up the facts surrounding the nuclear crisis in that country in order to take North Korea to war, the Iranian religious leader seems to gone off the deep edge.
One Sided Politics and Military Alliance: The Modern Saudi Legacy	Sep 2002	This four section report summarizes the reality of the Saudi Arabian duplicity that MILNET believes contributed heavily to many of the major terrorist events in the last two decades and joins with the Rand Corporation analysts who recommend that the U.S. take strong measures to force the Saudi government to change their ways or face U.S. retaliation.

Almost Made It This Month

Title	Date	Brief Description
Iran Nuclear Goals Seem Clear	Jun 2004	While North Korea rattles the nuclear saber overtly and some relish, Iran's nuclear program is hidden under a more classic Middle Eastern facade of peaceful intentions. Yet, like North Korea, their friends in Russia seem to be helping them build a second nuclear reactor, as if this energy rich country needs yet another nuclear power plant..
The Underplayed Crisis	Sep 2004	The real problem nuclear proliferation is one of time. By the time we hear of nuclear proliferation problems, the cause for that concern can only have grown worse, not better. And in most cases, our information is so old we don't realize the REAL danger. Iran is the classic case. Focus on nuclear plants that have certain capacities is certainly troubling. However, in some cases, that is not the correct focus. In the Iranian case, direct production of highly enriched uranium, that stuff that bombs are made of, could very well be part of the Iranian shell game.
The Iranian Nuclear Threat	Aug 2004	MILNET Guest Writer Shalom Freedman lays out the Iranian hatred for Israel, the focus on a tenfold increase in its effective military power, and how that nuclear program has at least two targets, Israel and the U.S. (Little Satan and Big Satan).