Another ex-CIA guy. Philip Giraldi, writing at American Conservative blog, on a report that good Anthony Zinni was to be named Ambassador to Iraq, and shook Hillary’s hand on that, till the lobby reared its hydra heads: I have been…
Another ex-CIA guy, the great Michael Scheuer relates his expulsion from the Jamestown Foundation following a speech in December criticizing the special relationship: My speech seemed well received, but in January I received a call from Jamestown’s president telling me…
My congressman is a true would-be progressive, John Hall, a longtime musician (Orleans) serving his second term after knocking off a Republican incumbent 3 years ago in the anti-Iraq war election. Well it’s one thing to run against the Iraq…
A brilliant performance by the new president, I’d have to say. But troubling on the same old issues. “I just laughed when Obama said that a nuclear Iran ‘might set off a nuclear arms race in the region,'” F.E. Felson…
Mohammad of Vancouver writes: I have no illusions about Obama. I began having doubts when the Lieberman mentorship issue surfaced, and these doubts solidified into actual fears when I saw his speech at the annual AIPAC conference in June 2008….
Phil Weiss thinks the Israel lobby has been transformed by recent events, and we are seeing it in decline (even as the damage is done in the Middle East). J Street, a Lebanese-American envoy, Barack Hussein Obama, talking to Iran….
You may remember Abe Foxman’s initial response to the rumor that George Mitchell would be appointed special envoy to the Middle East. He observed that Mitchell is know for being evenhanded and commented, “I’m not sure the situation requires that…