I hate to show weakness in front of the Russians, but it's hard to argue with this:Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said the results of Iran's missile tests prove that US plans for a defence shield in Europe are unnecessary. Mr Lavrov said the...
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Dan Nexon has a good post about the frenzy of dealmaking that the Bush administration is pursuing in an effort to "lock in" policy preferences before the transition to a.
The main point here seems to be that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says many things about Israel, and that the sum total of these things is incoherent contradiction. As such, it doesn't.
Is Iran a threat to the existence of the United States? Joltin' Joe Lieberman says yes:Obviously Israel is first in the line of Iranian fire. And it represents an existential threat to Israel. But you know who is next? The Arab countries in the Middle...
It's difficult for me to express just how moronic this column is:THIS MAY sound like an extreme conclusion but, as Ari Bar Yossef, retired lieutenant-colonel and administrator of the Knesset's.
Chuckie Krauthammer comes not to praise nonproliferation, but to bury it:The era of nonproliferation is over. During the first half-century of the nuclear age, safety lay in restricting the weaponry.
Everyone in the Middle East, apparently, but particularly the Saudis:The administration has long tried in vain to build Arab diplomatic and economic support for the Iraqi government. But the Arabs, led by Saudi Arabia, consider Shiite Iran a competitor for regional dominance and have rejected...
Really, was it wise to publish Matt Duss so soon after the Scott Templeton fiasco? Makes me wonder if there's even a place called "Iraq"; seriously, does anyone believe that.
Michael Goldfarb dissents from my conclusions on the implications of the NIE on missile defense, and further asserts that liberals should love missile defense:And finally, liberals fundamentally misunderstand the effect.
For the last two years, we have justified putting a missile defense system in Eastern Europe explicitly around the threat of Iranian ballistic missiles. In addition to the extraordinary financial costs, this project has resulted in increased Russian hostility to the United States and to...
Island of Balta believes ""In 20 years, we will look back and say that the single greatest failure of this Administration was the fact that it allowed Iran time to.
Bird Dog over at Tacitus channels Charles Krauthammer: For me, it's hard to disagree with Krauthammer and this bleak situation. We need an aggressive policy of regime change for Iran, we.