According to this article from the Telegraph, at least one pro-Syrian-opposition lobbyist in Washington thinks the Obama administration's decision not to intervene any further in the Syrian conflict is made primarily due to the demands of the electoral cycle, and that...
While MSNBC and Fox News bicker over how many of Mitt Romney's tax returns have been released, there is a giant gaping void where they could be talking about substance. To remind those talking heads and their producers trying their best to imitate ESPN, the US is at...
Via As'ad AbuKhalil, this picture evidently represents the views of many Egyptians: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton just returned from a visit to Egypt to meet with the new Islamist President Mohamed Mursi. Her armored motorcade...
In an interview with a top Taliban commander, the safe haven myth is dealt another blow (via: ThinkProgress). New York Times: “At least 70 percent of the Taliban are angry at Al Qaeda,” Maulvi said. “Originally, the Taliban were naïve and ignorant of politics and...
Former CIA case officer Reuel Marc Gerecht writes today in the Wall Street Journal that Obama should "unleash the CIA" on Syria and topple the Assad regime. He argues for "a muscular CIA operation launched from Turkey, Jordan and even Iraqi Kurdistan" and to deploy...
Thomas Ricks argues in the New York Times that we should reinstate military conscription (via Chris Preble). He quotes Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who thinks risk of death ought to be thrust on all Americans if the criminals in government decide they want to make war. "I...
Mohammad Ali Shabani, based in Tehran, has written an important piece at al Jazeera on the effect of the US-led international sanctions on Iran. He opens by describing a man named Hassan who is suffering from cancer but cannot get the medicine needed to fight it. His...
One of Mitt Romney's top campaign advisors (and potential Secretary of State if Obama loses) has such inadequate understanding of the Iranian issue, and is so belligerently wrong on the fundamentals, that it should frighten any observer of the 2012 race. In his latest...
The Israeli government's study that this week found the occupation of Palestinian territories to actually not be an occupation and Israel's settlement activity to actually not be illegal is the worst kind of absurdity. Its Nixon-esque declarations are such an affront...
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