Decade After Iraq, Right-Wing and Liberal Hawks Reunite Over Syria

by Jim Lobe via IPS News Ten years after right-wing and liberal hawks came together to push the U.S. into invading Iraq, key members of the two groups appear to be reuniting behind stronger U.S. military intervention in Syria. While… Continue Reading

Perle and the Clarion Fund/Project

by Jim Lobe I just received this solicitation in an email: Former Assistant Secretary of Defense, Richard Perle, Available for Interviews on Terror Attacks Available for Interviews: Richard Perle – Former Assistant Secretary of Defense Clare Lopez – Senior Fellow,… Continue Reading

Diplomacy is Still Washington’s Best Option for Iran

by Jasmin Ramsey Two conversations are presently occurring in Washington about Iran. Hawks and hardliners are searching for new ways to force the Obama administration to tighten or impose further sanctions, and/or discussing when the US should strike the country. Meanwhile,… Continue Reading

Please Put Victor Davis Hanson Out to Pasture. Wolfowitz, Too.

by Jim Lobe I stopped reading neo-con and Dick Cheney favorite Victor Davis Hanson, “the Sage of Fresno”, after the Bush administration, largely because almost everything he wrote sounded exactly the same (cranky), and he offered no insight into what… Continue Reading

Washington Post’s Jackson Diehl Taken Down

by Jim Lobe Jackson Diehl, the deputy editorial page editor at the Washington Post who also writes a weekly foreign affairs column, generally stands at the intersection of neo-conservatism and liberal interventionism and, in my view, holds a lot of the… Continue Reading