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Whenever former VP Dick Cheney criticizes President Obama’s foreign policies, he comes across like a condemned man pleading for political absolution; no time more so than with respect to Iraq. Never mind that his criticisms are invariably about as credible as those of an arsonist criticizing the way firemen are putting out the inferno he ignited.… Read more.
European allies are joining the Obama administration in criticizing Republican congressional interjection into nuclear negotiations with Iran, saying that an open letter from Republican senators to Iranian leaders has been counterproductive and comes at a particularly sensitive time in the talks… The letter warned Iran that any nuclear agreement signed by Obama could be revoked… Read more.
Iran struck an historic agreement today with the United States and five other major nuclear powers: namely, China, France, Germany, Russia, and the UK – all represented by their respective foreign ministers. It calls for Iran to temporarily suspend developing its nuclear program in exchange for these powers (specifically the United States) temporarily suspending (only… Read more.
I have become so cynical about politics that I’m not the least bit surprised that Republicans forced the (partial) shutdown of the U.S. government yesterday merely to appease their hopelessly misguided, Obama-hating constituents; the welfare of the country be damned. I am not even surprised that a congenital mix of political ignorance and racial prejudice… Read more.
The Islamic Republic of Iran elected a new president in a democratic election that would’ve made even George Washington, the father of American democracy, proud. But this did not please one of his presidential heirs and namesake, George W. Bush, in the least. After all, this curious George only likes democratic elections when the rulers… Read more.
Nobody in his right mind doubts that President Obama fully appreciates the existential threat Israel faces by having Iran, which seems hell-bent on building nuclear weapons, continually threaten to wipe it off the map. In point of fact, he has repeatedly vowed that the United States will not allow Iran to build those weapons, let… Read more.
No doubt the rhetoric now being hurled between the United States/Israel and Iran smacks of an unnerving echo of that which was hurled between the United States/Britain and Iraq before the ill-fated invasion of that country in 2003 – complete with UN nuclear inspectors (then and now) on a wild-goose chase to find weapons of mass destruction.… Read more.
Two years ago, agents from Israel’s revered Mossad were caught on CCTV in Dubai carrying out a hit on a senior Hamas leader. They were universally ridiculed, and I duly piled on: It’s bad enough that these spies can be seen in Technicolor going into public bathrooms and coming out in their laughable disguises (some… Read more.
Just watched, in-flight, a press conference by Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director Robert Mueller, during which they laid out a chilling and admittedly thrilling (foiled) plot by senior members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (the Quds Force) to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States and bomb both the Saudi and Israeli Embassies.… Read more.
President Obama expended a great deal of political capital over the past five months trying to enlist countries like China and Russia in his coalition of the willing to impose new sanctions on Iran. He finally succeeded last week when the UN Security Council passed Resolution 1929. This latest round of sanctions is aimed at undermining… Read more.
