Who could have known that Michael Oren wasn't an entirely reliable source regarding Israel's military plans? After all, he totally predicted that Israel would strike Iran within eighteen months of January 2007. That must mean that he's really, really well connected. The only other explanation is...
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It's kind of a minor point, but if a Democratic Senator made a similar error (especially in the context of arguing for military disengagement) I suspect that we'd hear no.
Ok, so let's assume that Mubarak takes the easy way out and heads for healthier climes. What explains the difference between the failure of the Green Revolution and the success.
One of the more interesting cables revealed by Wikileaks involved a meeting between Russian and US diplomats that touched on the question of Iran-North Korea collaboration. One of the key charges made by the Americans was that a number of BM-25 ballistic missiles had been...
It's not as if there are a lot of good arguments for war against Iran, but Broder has constructed what has to be the worst. Duss does the necessary demolition.
There's obviously much of interest in the Wikileaks Iraq release; for the moment the Iran stuff holds the bulk of my attention: But the field reports disclosed by WikiLeaks, which.
I'm not terribly interested in the project of calling Jeffrey Goldberg out as a propagandist; he's Jeffrey Goldberg, so of course he's a propagandist. As I suggested yesterday, I don't find the claims put forward in the article particularly new or revelatory. Essentially the same...
When you're on Iran's death-row, which has seemingly been convinced to upgrade their standards of decency to the level exercised by my home state of Washington, at least in terms.
Michael Oren and Yossi Halevi: An Israeli assault could only delay Iran's nuclear program, not eliminate it. That's because Israel cannot sustain an air campaign against such remote targets for.
Like I say, every country has its neocons: In his first interview since his capture after the fall of Baghdad, Saddam Hussein's former top deputy Tariq Aziz tells the Guardian that it would be wrong for the U.S. to pull out of Iraq now. Speaking...
I don't want to interrupt Jeffrey Goldberg's hand-wringing, but this really stood out: Israel may face, in the coming year, a threat to its existence the likes of which it.
I'm in the midst of Charles Tripp's excellent A History of Iraq, and I'm curious about the Russian interest in Persian Gulf stability during the war. The Soviets played footsie.