Iran
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Foreign Affairs
Russian navy promises ‘support’ to Nicaragua
… and other news from the brave new world In case you were wondering: no, the former-Soviet navy didn’t use…
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Foreign Affairs
Obama’s Cuban missile crisis
What a coup it would be, for Team Obama to turn two weeks of dithering and squandering American credibility on…
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National Security
Israel’s wild card: Nuclear missile equipped submarine fleet
“The equivalent of 200,000,000 – 400,000,000 pounds of TNT….” Amid the rapidly assembling fleets of the United States, Russia, and…
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Foreign Affairs
Syria: Now, the run-up to whatever ‘it’ will or won’t be
What the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has voted to authorize is a military operation not to exceed 90 days in…
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Foreign Affairs
The unbearable passivity of triangulated policies that require 'slam dunk' intelligence
It’s a percussion symphony out there. The drumbeat of stalwart European readiness to strike Syria has become unsteady – boy,…
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Foreign Affairs
The perils of Barack
So here we are. Americans elected Barack Obama, and now he appears to be within a breath of embroiling us…
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Foreign Affairs
Britain taking lead on Syria?
One of these days, the mainstream media will catch up with reality and start reporting things as they are. In…
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Law and Government
Iran: Woman too sexy for public office
More Twists and Turns than Owen Wilson’s Nose in a Blender… Possibly taking its cue from a recent U.S. state…
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Foreign Affairs
'Moderate' Rouhani misled West; sneaked in centrifuges?
There is a particularly interesting aspect to the video that has recently surfaced, in which Iran’s new president, Hassan Rouhani,…
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Foreign Affairs
Morsi down, Saudis up in battle for Syria
Mohammed Morsi’s call for holy war in Syria spooked the Egyptian military, and it alarmed the Saudis too. I suspect…
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Foreign Affairs
Egyptian crisis: It’s the 'holy war,' stupid
It took a couple of weeks for the crisis to come to a head. But the origins of the Morsi…
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Foreign Affairs
U.S. in Afghanistan: Of course we negotiate with terrorists
In a sign of the surreality into which we have descended under the Obama administration, the media have been reporting…
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Foreign Affairs
Rohani: A 'moderate' game-changer?
A reader at The Optimistic Conservative pointed out that the media outlets hailing the election of Hassan Rohani, a so-called…
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Foreign Affairs
Democrat Fools on al Qaeda's Syrian Hill
Bill Clinton says jump and Commander-in-Chief Barack Obama’s administration asks how high? Clinton told Sen. John McCain he agrees that Obama should…
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Foreign Affairs
Crazy! Iran will be chairing the UN conference on disarmament
With each passing day, the United Nations becomes more irrelevant to anyone outside the progressive movement and/or the Obama Administration.…
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Foreign Affairs
State of unreadiness
My colleague Timothy Whiteman highlighted last Thursday the number of Air Force squadrons that will have to cease training later…
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Economy
Dead in the water: Obama’s military and the Iran nuclear threat
Two to three years ago, the United States Department of Defense had enough military forces on station in, or readily…
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Foreign Affairs
Ahmadinejad offers to to be launched into space
“That’s one small step for man, one giant step for a cosmic caliphate.” Such an announcement, or something like it,…
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Foreign Affairs
Who do you believe?
In a January 8 letter sent to Congressman Inhofe, the State Department explained its decision to allow the transfer of…
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Foreign Affairs
Hagel on Cuba: Feel the love
Jennifer Rubin posts on Hagel’s Cuba problem: Much of the focus on Chuck Hagel’s record has been on his views…
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Foreign Affairs
Venezuela: Oh, peachy, now the Obama admin's cozying up to Maduro
Now that Hugo Chávez doesn’t need to be sworn in to start his new six-year term, there’s this from The…
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Foreign Affairs
It's a trifecta!
To all right wing-nut conspiracy freaks: you have just been proved completely and utterly wrong. President Barack Obama has nominated,…
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Foreign Affairs
You don’t have to be Jewish to oppose Hagel for Defense
The rightosphere has responded viscerally to Chuck Hagel’s potentially receiving the nomination for secretary of defense. If you didn’t know better,…
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Foreign Affairs
Iran, Syria, and sanctions-busting fakery
Inevitably, Iran and Syria are gaming international maritime communications. Both nations are under sanctions. Both appear to be faking registry…
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Foreign Affairs
The dog that didn't bark
One of the many mysteries still swirling around the September 11 attack in Benghazi is why the U.S. government seems…
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Foreign Affairs
There’s a new Pharoah in town
Eyes on the ball, folks. In strategic terms, the most important thing that has happened in the last 10 days…
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Foreign Affairs
Gaza: Least likely place to use US Marines to rescue American citizens?
Why are we sending an amphibious readiness group (ARG) with a Marine expeditionary unit (MEU) embarked to sit off the…
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