michael ledeen

I emailed Michael Ledeen, the neoconservative scholar at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, for comment on President Obama receiving the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. His response:
The Nobel Committee is following its well-known proclivity of awarding the Peace Prize to people who make war more likely. Remember Jimmy Carter and Yasser Arafat?

Fun as it is to laugh at Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), let me return to some of the previous post’s source material, but in a different context. Look at how today’s Iranian-regime tactic is to brand the opposition as American stooges. A prosecutor in Isfahan says it’s religiously permissible to murder “the few elements controlled [...]

After two days of criticism that he should explicitly side with the Iranian opposition, President Obama yesterday said he was “deeply troubled” by the Iranian regime’s willingness to resort to violence, and while it’s “up to Iranians to make decisions about who Iran’s leaders will be,” he believes “the Iranian people and their voices should [...]

The economic downturn has meant cutting back one prestige product and trimming some minor costs and low-level staff. Several long-time scholars have left for more complicated reasons.

If you factor out the self-awareness, Michael Ledeen is to neoconservatism what Kathy Griffin is to fame. How a man who helped arrange arms sales to the Iranian government and who now has imaginary conversations in public with dead spies can be published for money might explain a great deal about the intellectual collapse of [...]