After he broke with his former neo-conservative comrades, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan suggested why in a not-so-oblique passage of his 1993 book on the post-Cold War era, Pandaemonium. During his early years in the Senate, he wrote, he came to… Continue Reading
When the U.S. and the UN passed new rounds of sanctions against Iran, I’m sure they didn’t intend to quash all contact between the two countries. But that’s the problem with sanctions like these — they often have unintended consequences… Continue Reading
Despite some questionable choices of scholars — like neocons Elliott Abrams and Max Boot — the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an enduring institution in Washington foreign policy circles. The New York- and Washington-based think tank has long been… Continue Reading
Here’s a round-up of mainstream and right-wing news and hawkish opinion about U.S. foreign policy on Iran: Wall Street Journal: Edward J. Epstein discusses the intelligence community’s failure to identify that Iran had not given up its nuclear program in… Continue Reading
and Ali Gharib Here at LobeLog, we are increasingly concerned about the direction of U.S. foreign policy with regard to Iran. There’s been a marked increase recently in war chatter by neoconservatives, in particular, as Jim anticipated in an IPS… Continue Reading