Reprinted with permission of Think Progress Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty delivered a major foreign policy address this morning at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. The former Minnesota governor, still the darling of Washington’s hawks, spoke out… Continue Reading
International and U.S. extra-territorial sanctions against Iran are often credited with making travel on Iranian commercial airlines relatively unsafe. International companies won’t sell Iran spare parts for even routine maintenance on their fleet. But a new potential side effect of… Continue Reading
I’ve been saying for a while now that the Saudi role in suppressing Arab uprisings will have a far larger short- to medium-term negative impact on the region than any of Iran’s many machinations. Read Hossein Askari at the National… Continue Reading
Mr. Arrigoni is the first foreigner to have been kidnapped here since the Hamas takeover of Gaza in 2007, and appears to be the first pro-Palestinian activist in memory to have been killed here by Palestinians. That raised embarrassing questions… Continue Reading
I was a bit bored by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen‘s (R-FL) House Foreign Affairs briefing last week on Israel. ‘Blah blah blah never give up the Jordan Valley.’ I thought maybe there would be real Congressional work discussed. But, like opposition… Continue Reading