“It won’t do any good. It will propel and embolden the worst regime in power and it will almost guarantee the development of nuclear weapons moves ahead more aggressively.” – Ellis Henican “There is no single target, there is no way a lightening strike by Israeli troopers can make any kind of difference at [...]
“I simply refuse to give up any of our weapons in this war – whether that be criminal prosecutions, whether that be financial sanctions or, ultimately, some threat of military action.” – Ellis Henican In response to the Assasination Plot – President Obama announced sanctions against Iran. Do sanctions work and is this a strong [...]
http://www.newsday.com/columnists/ellis-henican/quest-for-freedom-meets-violent-match-1.2699418 The spark of freedom, once struck, is not easily extinguished. Isn’t that the lesson of the American Revolution, the French Revolution and about a hundred other revolutions since? Well, that spark has clearly been struck in Tahrir Square as Facebook social networkers and English-speaking college students quickly toppled Egypt’s autocratic Mubarak regime. So Bahrain [...]
“140-Character World Changers,” Ellis Henican Column, am/New York, June 19, 2009, page 4 Why should Iranian election protesters have all the Twitter fun? Can’t other world events be hijacked, one 140-character outburst at a time? Sure, they can. And soon they will be. Every day, it gets a little bit harder to tell the social-networking [...]
ELLIS HENICAN is a columnist at Newsday and a political analyst on the Fox News Channel. He also hosts a nationally syndicated weekend show on Talk Radio Network, is author of a New York Times Bestseller, and is the voice of “Stormy” on the hit Cartoon Network series “Sealab 2021.”
