Last week President Obama flew to India to sell them $5 billion for 10 Boeing C-17 cargo planes — the sixth biggest arms deal in U.S. history. As Jim Hightower points out, this deal doesn’t do much to boost American[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Iran is a threat because Washington says so. Certainly, WaPo accepts the charge at face value: Iran’s ambitions, which have cast a long shadow over the greater Middle East, may serve as a common bond keeping a frail peace process[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In a previous post about the futility of preventing Iran (or anyone else) from developing nuclear weapons, I wrongly mentioned that Iran has maintained the right to do so. That was faulty memory. I should have looked up the source[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yup. Yet this is hypocrisy to which we’ve grown so accustomed that nobody seems to notice it any more. The nuclear club is meant to be exclusive. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty recognises the five permanent members of the UN security[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Remember when we used to chastise Bush for his blunt “bring ’em on” bravura? Yeah, so…what do we make of the Obama administration’s naked threat to nuke anyone who wants to develop nukes? Mr. Obama’s new strategy makes just about[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There are typos. And then there are intelligence failures in more ways that one. A Defense Intelligence Agency publication available as recently as yesterday on its Web site noted “an Israeli F-16 raid to destroy an Iranian nuclear reactor” in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you watched Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show last night, you probably caught this segment, Richard Engel’s sunny assessment of Iraqi election results. In Maddow’s words, the Allawi victory could be a “recipe for more stability” as it draws in a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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