There’s an interesting little spat brewing between Fox News blowhard Bill O’Reilly and Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank. Now, I usually like Milbank’s stuff alright — he often makes me laugh (or cry) by detailing hypocrisy in Washington and his old pool reports are the stuff of legend. (No comment on O’Reilly.)
Tangential to this [...]
There has been no shortage of coverage of former president George W. Bush’s latest memoir which details his major decisions, ranging from quitting drinking to the Iraq war. For insights into his Iran policy and how it fits with his “freedom agenda,” take a look at Kimberley A. Strassel’s Wall Street Journal interview with Bush. [...]
News and views relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for October 27, 2010.
Foreign Policy: Harvard International Relations Professor Stephen Walt blogs the revelations that Hamid Karzai receives money from Iran should come as no surprise. Far from being a “dastardly Iranian plot to control Afghanistan,” Walt points out “given that the two states share a [...]
A recent American Jewish Committee poll of 800 self-identifying American Jews showed decreasing support for President Barack Obama and his Middle East policies. While his handling of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the economy were also concerns, the prominent trend of growing U.S. Jewish support for an attack on Iran was most striking.
We covered [...]
Harvard International Relations Professor Stephen Walt offers his take on what the Saudi arms deal means for U.S.-Iran policy.
While pundits have suggested that the deal might signify a shift in the Obama administration’s posture from preventing Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon to deterring and containing a nuclear armed Iran, Walt, a [...]
I recently wrote a piece on humor as war propaganda for AlterNet. With that story in mind, I’d like to point you to an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg on yesterday’s episode of the “Colbert Report” with satirist Stephen Colbert. The idea of laughing about Israel — or the United States — [...]
To follow up on yesterday’s post about Lee Smith and frivolous charges of anti-Semitism, it appears that Jeffrey Goldberg — while conceding that Smith’s article, for which he served as the sole source, was completely lacking in substance or evidence — is continuing his rather creepy and pathetic vendetta [...]
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