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…
The story of U.S. counterinsurgency “success” and military withdrawal is a bed-time tale told to put the American public to sleep. So argues Hannah Gurman in a Salon piece that punctures several propaganda balloons floated by the ObamAdmin, GOP and[…]↓ 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…
…but I know you didn’t. Still, it’s helpful that Frank Rich put together in three paragraphs a litany of the intelligence and national security madness pursued by the previous White House: Obama may well make — or is already making[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Karl Rove has learned his lesson: Mr. Rove adamantly rejects allegations that the administration deliberately lied about the presence of weapons in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. But he acknowledges that the failure to find them badly damaged Mr. Bush’s presidency, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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