Just a brief note on Obama’s response to foreign-policy questions at his first press conference tonight. Give that he has been focused almost exclusively over the past week on getting his stimulus package through Congress, I thought his extemporaneous answers… Continue Reading
Michael Ledeen, who 25 months ago announced to the world that Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had died — he got this from such an exclusive source that not even Amir Taheri, another neo-con fantasist, could confirm or deny… Continue Reading
I hate to agree with Bill Kristol, but he’s right about Vice President Joe Biden’s speech at the ongoing Munich security conference when he writes that “the administration chose not to use the occasion to say something interesting. One hopes… Continue Reading
As he makes clear in this post, The Atlantic’s Andrew Sullivan has finally come to the conclusion that the democracy claptrap that neo-conservatives have spouted since 9/11 has been a facade for their core foreign-policy worldview with Israel at its… Continue Reading
As pointed out in this post by Rasmus Christian Elling of the University of Copenhagen, the U.S. Treasury — notably Stuart Levey, whose zeal in trying to make it difficult for Iranian banking interests to do business outside their borders… Continue Reading