Foreign Policy has a series this month entitled “Misreading Tehran” in which “Leading Iranian-American writers revisit a year of dreams and discouragement” that is quite interesting. The introduction describes how “the Western media was presented with a sweeping, dramatic story” after the June 12, 2009 presidential election in Iran. “It…
Look. It's not that difficult, okay? Point one: Politicians don't often say what they mean. Point two: Politicians don't often mean what they say. As corollary of the first two points, point three: Policy is rightly judged by deeds, not words.…
Many analysts have postulated that President Obama's canning of Gen. Stanley McChrystal was compelled in part by a desire within the administration to shift the Afghanistan policy.…
Representative Jim Costa (CA) sponsored a bill introduced into the U.S. Congress on Tuesday "Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives on the one-year anniversary of the Government of Iran's fraudulent manipulation of Iranian elections...…
Writing in Foreign Policy, Marc Lynch opines that it's a "good deal" to accept an Israeli "easing of the blockade of Gaza" in exchange for "American support for a whitewash of the investigation" of the Israeli attack on the humanitarian aid flotilla, in which 9 Turkish peace activists were murdered.…
Who is really anti-Semitic? Helen Thomas, for expressing her view that Jews should return the land to the Arabs that they ethnically cleansed and stole? Or James Taranto, for expressing his view to the contrary?
McChrystal confronts the specter of a collapse of United States political support for the war.
The Washington Post reports today that "The U.S. military is funding a massive protection racket in Afghanistan, indirectly paying tens of millions of dollars to warlords, corrupt public officials and the Taliban to ensure save passage of its supply convoys throughout the country, according to congressional investigators."…
Myth #1 – Jews and Arabs have always been in conflict in the region. Myth #2 – The United Nations created Israel. Myth #3 – The Arabs missed an opportunity to have their own state in 1947.…
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Ban Ki-moonThe United Nations Security Council yesterday passed a fourth sanctions resolution against Iran for its insistence on enriching its own uranium...…
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