Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had a very interesting exchange with Wyatt Andrews of CBS News yesterday. In it, Clinton suggested the opposition fighters in Syria are not a cohesive enough group to justify sending arms and that U.S. intervention on behalf of the...

I wrote recently about how even the mainstream media is coming around to reporting the consensus within the U.S. intelligence community, that Iran is not developing nuclear weapons and has demonstrated no intention of doing so. For example, the New York Times ran a...

Here's a nice, raucous, Sunday morning debate between Jeremy Scahill and Ann-Marie Slaughter on Up with Chris Hayes. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

The imposition of ever stricter sanctions on Iran over its civilian nuclear program has already spilled over in a big way against Iran's private economy, though it has largely spared the public sector that it supposedly targets. But we can add another side effect to...

Rick Santorum has always seemed a little too good to be true. Michael Ledeen, for one, has fallen right into the trap, in his recent Wall St. Journal piece, “Santorum was right about Iran – When It was Unpopular.” But then one looks at Ledeen’s subtitle, “A...

As I wrote about in today's news section, the so-called "Friends of Syria" conference of almost 70 nations in Tunisia is calling for (1) a cease fire and (2) a subsequent UN "peacekeeping" force to have unrestricted access to Syria. While I have no illusions about how...

In Foreign Affairs, Micah Zenko and Michael A. Cohen argue that despite the constant fear-mongering and threat inflation in America, we are actually very secure and face very few, very minor external threats. And one of the reasons we have a system that fuels...

In Arizona, where seven Marines were killed late Wednesday in a collision of two helicopters near Yuma, Ariz., during night training exercises. Of course, there are many other reasons to stay out of the military as well.