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Those arguing for US intervention in Syria have always had a hard time being consistent, but Jackson Diehl's piece in the Washington Post on Sunday is all over the place. He claims that Obama's decision in 2009 to re-open the US Embassy in Syria (it had been closed by...

A new study from Columbia Law School's Human Rights Institute finds that the number of Pakistani civilians killed in drone strikes are "significantly and consistently underestimated" by tracking organizations which are trying to take the place of government estimates...

Politicians technically use the same language as us, but many of their words have very different meanings. In last week's vice presidential debates, for example, Joe Biden said, “We are leaving [Afghanistan]. We are leaving in 2014, period. Period." Micah Zenko at the...

David Rothkopf at Foreign Policy revives an issue I thought might at least temporarily dissipate after the official "dialing back" of Israeli leaders' pressure for a US war on Iran. He says the Obama administration has discussed a US-Israeli "surgical strike" on...

With the news that more than 150 US forces have been deployed to Jordan, in part to "be positioned" as a contingent force "should the turmoil in Syria expand into a wider conflict," it's important to note the risk involved. As the New York Times reported: American...

Micah Zenko at the Council on Foreign Relations lists Mitt Romney's apparent foreign policy principles vis-a-vis his foreign policy speech from yesterday. In part, Zenko's impressions are compatible with what I wrote about Romney's speech: that it suggested little to...

The AP is reporting that Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta is (pretending to be) concerned about military enforcement of domestic laws throughout Latin America: Latin American nations must try to use their police and not their military forces to enforce the law,...

As noted in the news section today, Israeli intelligence is now hyping IAEA findings from back in August that say Iran has on several recent occasions used the 20 percent enriched uranium – the highest it has and the portion of the program which most riled hawks in...

For several months now it has been known that the US is cooperating with its allies in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar to provide aid and weapons to the rebel fighters in Syria. While the US has sent "non-lethal" aid to the rebels - like money, communications gear,...