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Greg Sargent at the TPM Café just posted an important entry on Vice President Dick Cheney’s contribution to the contretemps between the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Eric Edelman, and Sen. Hillary Clinton regarding the Pentagon’s contingency planning for withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq. Sargent’s account – including Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ efforts to calm [...]
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Readers of this blog may have noticed that it is now possible to comment on specific entries, and you are invited to do so. Ad hominem or otherwise irrelevant attacks against individuals or groups of people will not be posted. We intend to post only those comments that we believe will further discussion, knowledge and/or [...]
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Again from the fever swamps of ‘The National Review’ comes a particularly apocalyptic scenario from the president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), former Republican National Committee communications director, and New York Timesman Clifford May who asks in a recent column for Scripps-Howard: “What happen [sic] if America retreat from Iraq?” The column bears [...]
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Just a short post to note that Michael Gerson’s notion that the U.S. mount cross-border raids into Syria — in part because Iran was just too tough for the moment – was followed up not only by Max Boot’s suggestion that the U.S. forces hold the Damascus International Airport hostage, but also by commentary from [...]
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Just when it appears that Israel and Syria may be slowly inching their way towards peace talks with the help of Turkey and Qatar (although Israel’s new president, Shimon Peres, called for direct talks Friday), two hawks at the otherwise realist Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) are calling for the Bush administration to carry [...]
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of the competing agendas and perceptions of Congressional Republicans, U.S. military commanders in Iraq (and President Bush), and the Pentagon (including Robert Gates and CentCom commander Adm. William Fallon), read Friday’s article in the Wall Street Journal, entitled “Gap Widens Over Iraq Approach,” by Greg Jaffe and Yochi Dreazen. If you don’t have a web [...]
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Republican front-runner Rudy Giuliani announced his foreign-policy advisory team Tuesday, and it looks from the membership as if he’s bidding for the Likud vote (for which he will no doubt receive tough competition from John McCain, Fred Thompson, and, eventually perhaps, Newt Gingrich).
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Don’t call the Wall Street Journal’s neo-conservative editorial board unfair or unbalanced.
Just yesterday (Friday), it ran an op-ed by Sen. Joseph Lieberman restating his thesis that the “fanatical government” of Iran is engaged in a “proxy war” against the United States, and is the “common denominator that links” all U.S. adversaries, from Sunni to Shi’a, [...]
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Et Tu, Cal
Friday, July 6th, 2007
While the mainstream media gave major attention Friday to Thursday’s defection by New Mexico Republican Sen. Pete Dominici’s from President Bush’s Iraq policy, Cal Thomas, a fixture of the far right for some 25 years, also appeared to have thrown in the towel, and not only on Iraq, with respect to Bush’s prospects.
In his latest [...]
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That’s what a lot of people are asking in the wake of Monday’s front-page New York Times article by Michael Gordon entitled “U.S. Ties Iran to Deadly Iraq Attack.” The story recounted charges leveled by a Brig. Gen. Kevin J. Bergner in a press conference in Baghdad to the effect that the Iranian Quds [...]
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