Give War A Chance
President Obama has promised to change the unilateral approach and seek consensus in defeating the bad guys. So how's it going so far, Mr. President?

With apologies to Louis Armstrong, it is not a wonderful world any longer. Today, it's a strange and dangerous world where reason and humanity have largely been replaced by fanaticism and treachery.

Leading the league in villainy are the Iranian mullahs and their chief enabler, the Russian tyrant Putin. While America, Britain, and France are desperately trying to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, Russia has announced it does not want to threaten the mullahs with economic sanctions.

According to the Associated Press, Putin says that talking about sanctions could scare the Iranians and be counterproductive to negotiations. Of course, negotiations with Iran have been going on since Hammurabi was running around, so this sounds a bit insincere.

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• The Factor welcomes John Stossel on Tuesday for a new weekly segment we're calling "Stossel Matters..."
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• Orly Taitz, the dentist/lawyer at the forefront of the Obama "birther" movement, has been sanctioned $20K by a court--we'll discuss it in "Is It Legal?"...

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