Laura Rozen in World Politics Review recaps this past weekend's P5+1 nuclear talks with Iran in Istanbul: First, the parties agreed that Iran, as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), is obligated to prove that its nuclear program is for purely...
The Pakistani Parliament just released their Guidelines for Revised Terms of Engagement with USA/NATO/ISAF. It states flatly that "Pakistan’s sovereignty shall not be compromised." And that includes no more drones. The US footprint in Pakistan must be reviewed. This...
In an interview with the Daily Caller, presumptive Libertarian Party nominee for president Gary Johnson tries heartily to describe his foreign policy...or at least a foreign policy. Plainly put, the man is confused. He says he supports U.S. military intervention in...
Not that I'm a huge fan of public opinion (84% of Americans think Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons), but this is via the Washington Post:
Via NIAC: Believe it or not, neoconservatives still justify attacking Iran by arguing that ordinary Iranians want a U.S. strike so that they can do away with this crummy old regime in Tehran (Jamie Fly of Foreign Policy Initiative and Helle Dale of the Hertiage...
In order to agree on a security arrangement governing U.S. military presence in Afghanistan post-2014, Kabul has essentially forced the Obama administration to concede two vital sticking points. First, control of Afghan prisons needed to be relinquished to the Kabul...
The unintended consequences of NATO's fateful intervention in Libya are widening still in Africa's Sahel region. The military coup that took place last month in Mali is a monument to the consequences of U.S. interventionism and the resulting power vacuum and...
Washington has just sent a second aircraft carrier into the Persian Gulf, joining the rest of the fleet of American warships just south of Iranian shores. Cmdr. Amy Derrick-Frost of the Bahrain-based 5th Fleet said the deployment is "routine and not specific to any...
Diplomatic negotiations between the P5+1 and Iran on Tehran's nuclear program begin this Friday. Positions in the talks have been exchanged already, however. Surprisingly, even after the Obama administration spent months resisting calls for war with Iran, Washington's...
