I’m off to Cairo later today, and then on to Gaza, I hope. Thanks to the generous support of readers of this site. I’ll be in Cairo when my president gets there, next month. Whether my group of 14 humanitarians/journalists…
David Sanger had a piece in the Times yesterday that was more Iran-fear-mongering. Iran test-fired a sophisticated missile on Wednesday.
David Sanger had a piece in the Times yesterday that was more Iran-fear-mongering. Iran test-fired a sophisticated missile on Wednesday that was capable of striking Israel and parts of Western Europe, adding to concerns that Iran’s weapons-development program is fast…
Scott McConnell, noting the Jane Harman news, points out that this is a wrinkle in the last neocon push: I assume that powerful Congressmen and women have a pretty good sense of political realities, so I took it as a…
Act I. Ben Smith at Politico interviews Joe Klein about scary Charles Krauthammer, and Klein, a novelist, offers an interesting analysis: “There’s something tragic about him, too,” Klein said, referring to Krauthammer’s confinement to a wheelchair, the result of a…
As I mentioned the other day, David Rose in Vanity Fair has a good piece saying that neocons in high U.S. government positions prevented American overtures to the Sunni insurgents in 2004, nearly three years before such connections helped end…
Leon Hadar in Foreign Affairs: The George W. Bush administration saw its foray into Iraq as a substitute for a diplomatic strategy to bring about Israeli-Palestinian peace. But the notion that the road to Jerusalem led through Baghdad — that…
Leon Hadar in Foreign Affairs: The George W. Bush administration saw its foray into Iraq as a substitute for a diplomatic strategy to bring about Israeli-Palestinian peace. But the notion that the road to Jerusalem led through Baghdad — that…
David Rose is reporting in Vanity Fair that back in 2004, nearly 3 years before the U.S. included Sunnis in efforts to end the insurgency in Iraq, Sunnis reached out to the Americans and were rebuffed. Rose says it was…