Guy Smith | December 23, 2009
Shortly after 9/11, I said that Osama bin Laden was hiding in Iran. Being a strategist by nature, bin Laden knew that once the Twin Towers collapsed, he would be a hunted man. He also would have realized that hiding in the mountains of Tora Bora would make him findable and killable — no strategist [...]
Guy Smith | December 13, 2009
To the victor go the spoils, until such time as spoiled children set fire to the booty. Like dysfunction siblings, San Francisco cannot be fully understood without occasionally examining near-by Berkeley, or as we locals commonly refer to the joint, Bizerkley. A volcanic center of free speech and psychedelic dissension in the 1960s, Berkeley has [...]
Guy Smith | November 14, 2009
It bears repeating: Barack Obama is not the brightest bulb on the homo sapiens marquee. Listening to local liberals one would think Obama was equal parts Einstein and da Vinci and that the next epoch of enlightenment will soon radiate from any of his immaculate orifices. Fact is Obama’s depth of policy knowledge is slightly [...]
Guy Smith | July 5, 2009
When multiple pieces on a chessboard move simultaneously, the game will soon end unpleasantly. This is not a reference to old men in the park engaging in fisticuffs over misplaces pawns. This is about Iran, Israel and an intervention that would change the scope of geopolitics forever. In the last twelve hours, three separate news [...]
Guy Smith | June 24, 2009
It is not morally wrong to cheer as an evil opponent self destructs. It is however a lousy tactic. The un-statuesque Napoleon once said “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake” and his observation gives me pause – vile nemeses are seemingly self destructing all around the globe and I hesitate to [...]
