By Daniel Luban It’s too early to declare a winner of the prize for “most unhinged right-wing commentary on the Iran crisis,” but National Review Online‘s Andy McCarthy (currently a fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies) makes a… Continue Reading
By Daniel Luban Charles Krauthammer’s most recent column on Iran offers a concise distillation of neoconservative pathologies about the Middle East, and a demonstration of why the Iranian protesters’ self-proclaimed best friends in the U.S. may prove to be their… Continue Reading
By Daniel Luban On Tuesday, Danielle Pletka and Ali Alfoneh of AEI published a New York Times op-ed claiming that the real and unnoticed story of the Iranian elections is that the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) have “effected a silent coup… Continue Reading
By Daniel Luban Readers in need of entertainment should really check out Center for Security Policy president Frank Gaffney‘s howler of an op-ed in the Washington Times today. While optimists may have thought that the “Obama is a secret Muslim”… Continue Reading
by Daniel Luban At Wednesday’s Heritage Foundation conference on the Middle East peace process (which, as I wrote yesterday, was primarily devoted to pushing the almost-universally-scorned “three-state solution” for Israel-Palestine), Middle East Forum director Daniel Pipes made an unusually revealing… Continue Reading