Elliott Abrams: Ironist Sublime
With neo-conservatives, you never know whether their preaching (especially about issues such as human rights or democracy) shows a complete lack of self-consciousness (given their long support for...
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Book Review: “Original Sins” Fuelled U.S.-Iran Enmity
By Gary Sick via IPS News NEW YORK, Nov 26 2012 (IPS) - I have never read a book quite like this. “Becoming Enemies” is the latest product of the indispensable National Security Archive, the Washington...
View ArticleOh, Snap, George Shultz Backs Hagel
via Lobe Log Neo-Cons Hit Post-Cold War Low Nearly six weeks after launching their campaign to derail the prospective nomination of former Sen. Chuck Hagel as Obama’s second-term secretary of defense,...
View ArticleEchoes of Lebanon in Syria
by Paul Pillar via The National Interest Expressions of angst over Syria have entailed several themes, one of which concerns possible “spread” of the Syrian civil war into nearby states. Lebanon, for...
View ArticleSpeaking of Abrams, What Did He Know About Genocide in Guatemala?
by Jim Lobe A Guatemalan court this afternoon found former President Efrain Rios Montt guilt of genocide and crimes against humanity committed against the indigenous Mayan Ixil population as a result...
View ArticleThinking Regionally on Syria
via LobeLog by Robert E. Hunter Following the US-Russian agreement, the Syrian government’s chemical weapons must now be destroyed. To do this without putting UN employees at impossible risk, the...
View ArticleIrony Overload: WSJ’s Rivkin & Casey Want to Wage Lawfare Against Russia
via LobeLog by Jim Lobe I suppose this is something to be welcomed, but David B. Rivkin, Jr. and Lee Casey — who spent a good part of the George W. Bush administration offering legalistic defenses in...
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