The New York Times reports that the "Senate will investigate recent national security leaks to the news media after articles in The New York Times about a 'kill list' for terrorists and the use of cyberweapons against Iran." Recent examples of the Obama...
Making the rounds today is a piece up at the Guardian in which a former top CIA terrorism official admits the obvious: that the drone war if overly broad, kills too many civilians, provokes anti-American hatred, and could inadvertently create terrorist safe havens....
Via Marc Lynch, "a useful addition to the growing body of analysis and argument" in opposition to any direct intervention in Syria from Prof. Eva Bellin and Prof. Peter Krause in the Middle East Brief from Brandeis University (PDF). Here's their takedown of why a...
The great Robert Higgs lists Axioms of Political Geometry. My two favorites: The shortest distance between a free society and a totalitarian society passes through war. The whole of society is greater than the part that government officials can comprehend, and much...
According to Bonnie S. Glaser at the Center for Strategic International Studies (no relation), next year "could see a shift in Chinese foreign policy based on the new leadership’s judgment that it must respond to a U.S. strategy that seeks to prevent China’s...
At this point in the international negotiations with Iran, people seem to be reading into it whatever is beneficial for their own arguments. They're either bound for resolution in the third round in Moscow later this month, or they're doomed to failure because, hey,...
Nikolas Kozloff writing at al Jazeera had recently brought to light the Obama administration's construction of a new military base in Argentina. Local authorities and official U.S. explanations insist the "Resistencia" base is for civil and humanitarian purposes...
From the New York Times:
The aspect of the Syria issue that is getting the most attention right now has the least to do with calls for intervention. I wouldn't for a second belittle the suffering people there have faced; what I'm saying is that those demanding that America do something about...
