Source: Senate Foreign Relations Committee Report, Gulf Security Architecture: Partnership with the Gulf Cooperation Council.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) tries to calm the waters roiled by his preemptive endorsement of Mitt "I'd Bomb Iran" Romney by taking to the pages of National Review Online to "rip" (as Conor Friedersdorf put it) Romney's view that the President doesn't need separate...

In the latest issue of Foreign Affairs, Kenneth N. Waltz argues "Why Iran Should Get the Bomb." The article is a welcome example of calm and sobriety in what is mostly a sea of irrational pro-war hysterics. Waltz argues that the apocalyptic rhetoric railing against...

The National Security Archive has obtained through a FOIA request newly released CIA documents pertaining to 9/11. There do not appear to be any great revelations in the release, although one of them further illustrates what a liar former Vice President Dick Cheney...

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee just released a report [PDF] on US policy in the Middle East. Much of the study describes how Washington will maintain key military bases and troop presence throughout the entire region and how to overcome challenges to...

Via Ali Gharib, what the Obama administration is providing the Syrian rebels: LOGISTICS AND COMMUNICATIONS ASSISTANCE – U.S. officials told the Wall Street Journal on Thursday that “U.S. intelligence operatives and diplomats have stepped up their contacts with Syrian...

Making the rounds is this clip of a Face the Nation interview with Mitt Romney. In it, he declares the Constitution irrelevant and argues he alone can make the decision to use military force against Iran. Putting aside for a moment the fact that Iran has no nuclear...

Chris Woods of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reports that the Obama administration seems to have officials notified Congress of the hostilities they've undertaken in Yemen and Somalia, which seems to hint of some law-abiding principles pursuant to the War...