The only congressman who speaks Farsi is now out of the slammer. That’s a good reason to put anyone in the slammer, don’t you think? Former Ohio congressman Bob Ney, a Republican, says his corruption investigation in the Jack Abramoff…
Weird that Joe Lieberman is in the running to be McCain’s vp. Peter King, the Long Island congressman, says McCain should pick him. So does Bill Kristol. It’s weird that he’s even being considered. It shows that the old social…
Jack Ross recommends Iowa Republican Jim Leach’s speech at the Democratic convention. “He said a lot of things no Democrat will say, like how we’re occupying a part of the world that doesn’t take well to western occupation. Most significant…
Jerry Slater has a smart piece in the Buffalo News saying that we can deter a nuclear-armed Iran but that deterrence is not the answer, disarmament is. Slater has a supple grasp on history. Some excerpts: Suppose… that nothing can…
Michael Scheuer goes after the “Israel-firsters” again at antiwar.com, attacking the Israel lobby for pushing the war in Iran after getting us into the mess in Iraq. He’s expanded on Walt and Mearsheimer. As has Joe Klein, who went public…
From Haaretz: The American-Israeli dispute over a military strike against Iran erupted during Bush’s visit to Jerusalem in May. At the time, Bush held a private meeting on the Iranian threat with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Ehud…
I heard Lebanese-Palestinian journalist Rami Khouri speak two weeks back in Cape Cod. Here he is with an eminently sensible column about Iran’s nuclear threat, in which he acknowledges Israel’s justifiable concern re nukes (Scott Ritter, after all, said that…
I just saw the “60 Minutes” piece on the Israeli Air Force and I’m stunned. The piece had the feel of pure propaganda. It was all about the mighty air force, with acrobatics, macho pilots, cool missiles and cockpit footage…
Here’s a feverish piece from WINEP (Obama aide Dennis Ross’s hangout), calling for the United States to protect the MEK, an Iranian resistance force based in Iraq, which Iraq’s leaders want to extirpate. WINEP’s Raymond Tanter, a visiting prof at…