by Jim Lobe
Now that he and presumably his friends at the Foreign Policy Initiative got a lot of what they wanted from Obama on Afghanistan, Bill Kristol is once again pivoting westward — this time to Iran, rather than Iraq — as he did eight years ago with the infamous September 20 PNAC letter. Look [...]
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By Daniel Luban
From everyone’s favorite, Andy McCarthy:
Michael [Ledeen] has been saying for years that the [Iranian] regime can be toppled without a military invasion. I haven’t been as confident about that — but he has been right about everything else, hasn’t he?
Evidently written with a straight face. McCarthy watchers may want to read the [...]
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By Daniel Luban
It now appears that the Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act (IRPSA), Howard Berman’s sanctions bill targeting Iran’s refined petroleum sector, is likely to come up for a vote in the near future. AIPAC and other hawkish “Israel lobby” groups have made the sanctions bill their top priority for months now, and today brought [...]
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By Eli Clifton
One day out from Obama’s long-awaited announcement on troop deployments to Afghanistan the White House is getting plenty of criticism from both sides of the aisle.
Democrats, including Rep. David Obey (D-WI), the influential chair of the House Appropriations Committee, have expressed concerns about both the cost of the war and the difficulty of [...]
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