Apr 7, 2015 – In this case, the devil is not in the details; the devil is Iran. … How do you negotiate with someone who has lied from the start and is told in the Koran that lying to "infidels" is permissible in pursuit … With Iran, past performance IS such a guarantee.…

Apr 3, 2015 – President Obama insists that his administration's preliminary outline of a nuclear deal with Iran is a "good deal," and the best … That’s a long way from the standard set by President Obama in 2012 when he declared that “the deal we’ll accept” with Iran “is that … Even during the ten-year pause, Iran is allowed to engage in "limited research and development with its advanced centrifuges.…

Apr 2, 2015 –  sanctions relief in exchange for going along with the program at its earliest stages.   … Iran also knows that it doesn't necessarily need to push its luck with dramatic breaches; the regime can cheat at the margins, and … problem -- which at the very least undermines is own leverage moving forward.  …

Apr 2, 2015 – The answer is simple. … That means—to cut to the chase—that we may associate with anyone who wishes to associate with us; but we are equally free to decline … At least that’s what the First Amendment says — such as it is.…

Apr 2, 2015 – The full tragedy of that ill-fated agreement should warn us on the eve of the Obama's administration's gullible agreement with Iran … Iran is not united. It is a mishmash nation in which over a third of the population is not Persian. … The United States is distant from Iran. But our allies in the Middle East and Europe are within its missile range.…

Apr 1, 2015 – The point is to pretend that Obama's permissive deal is the only thing standing between the US and a ground war in Iran. … Here's where things stand at last report: Top negotiators from several countries have departed Switzerland, despite the US' insistence … Because the rate of progress is "slow going," according to the British Foreign Minister, this is the farcical readjustment of expectations…

Apr 1, 2015 – Kennedy even quipped, “The absence of war is not peace.” … This is what Supreme Leader Khamenei announced at his February 18th address on the nuclear negotiations, “It is America that is stuck … can in no way be compared to [to the Iran of] 30-some years ago….Iran is moving forward, while the Americans, who have not succeeded…

Apr 1, 2015 – But surely the Nazi Holocaust during World War II should tell us that what is beyond the imagination of decent people is by no means … Should we bet the lives of millions of Americans on our ability to deter nuclear war with Iran? … The other reason is that, by going to the United Nations for its blessing on his agreement with Iran, he can get a bigger fig leaf…

Feb 7, 2017 – If he is to negotiate a modus vivendi with a nation with an arsenal of nuclear weapons sufficient to end life as we know it in the … Undeniably, we were on God's side in World War II and the Cold War. … Augusto Pinochet dealt summarily with our common enemies in Chile, and when the Savak of our ally the Shah of Iran was not a 501(c)…

Feb 21, 2017 – That’s the same reason the rest of us should celebrate such illegal leaks and protect those who undertake them, often at great risk … What they’re doing instead is trying to take maybe the only faction worse than Donald Trump, which is the deep state, the CIA, with … Taking out the partisan noise, what Greenwald is saying is not controversial.…

Feb 21, 2017 – The story goes that these individuals wanted him gone to protect Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran; Flynn was a staunch opponent to the … On the other hand, Flynn did mislead the vice president, which is why he was shown the exit, but the contents of the discussions, which … Ames’ flawed logic is eerily similar to that of his present-day colleagues who are engaged in a shadow war with their commander in…

Feb 16, 2017 – ISIS is simultaneously at war against the Assad regime, Iran and Iranian surrogates such Hezbollah, and Russian expeditionary forces … Two, work with the least awful of the three, which is probably Russia. … (The model is the savage Iran-Iraq war of 1980-1988 that weakened U.S. enemies Saddam Hussein and the Iranian theocracy but resulted…

Mar 4, 2017 – A war which saw the destruction of a nation which was the natural buffer to Iran, resulted in the loss of over four thousand American … soldiers, the wounding of over thirty thousand, and the deaths of at least two hundred thousand Iraqi civilians and counting. … , and who is willing to work with any and all parties to get things done for the welfare of our nation.…

Mar 2, 2017 – Dividing the world into the 'us' and 'our enemies' categories creates fear -- a deceitful justification for aggression and war. … When the then-president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, spoke at Columbia University in 2007, he was asked to explain the execution of … Fred Gottheil is an economics professor at the University of Illinois.…

Feb 27, 2017 – The Islamic Republic of Iran was well represented at the 89th Academy Awards show after Iranian director Asghar Fahadi won an Oscar … My absence is out of respect for the people of my country and those of other six nations whom have been disrespected by the inhumane … "Dividing the world into the 'us' and 'our enemies' categories creates fear, a deceitful justification for aggression and war," he…

Feb 24, 2017 – President Donald Trump is the carnival barker with a megaphone and the loudest voice on the midway, shilling for the greatest show … Johnson during the Vietnam War. … And he continued with a critique of the prosecution of another war, this one of President George W. Bush in Iraq.…

Mar 17, 2017 – Aflame with ethnic, civil and sectarian war in the 1990s, the western Balkans are again in political turmoil. … Syria's army, with the backing of Russia, Iran, Hezbollah and Shiite militias from across the Middle East, has carved out most of the … With the death of Communism, the end of the Cold War, and the collapse of the Bushite New World Order, America needs a new grand strategy…

Mar 17, 2017 – Oman, where I have spent the past week, is an Arab country unlike any other. Count the ways. … At present, with a civil war raging in next-door Yemen and Iran making trouble right by Oman's Musandam Peninsula, which juts out … A once-closed country is now easy of access; US$13 buys a visa at the airport and Oman's natural beauty has made it a destination…

Apr 12, 2017 – unknowingly lead us into World War III." -- Sept. 1, 2013: "If the U.S. attacks Syria and hits the wrong targets, killing civilians … Assad is one of the least bad leaders in the entire Middle East. … Was America strengthened by the Iraq War? The apparently never-ending Afghanistan War? Vietnam?…

Apr 11, 2017 – In these unpredictable times, one thing anyone could easily predict is that the President’s mercurial curiosities would lead us to … A sensible, measured American engagement in the Middle East is thoroughly compatible with what most Trump voters saw, and admired, … And it is noticed in Beijing, where the Chinese President is freshly returned from watching Trump give the launch order over dessert…

Apr 11, 2017 – at war not only with ISIS and al-Qaida, but with Syria, Russia, Iran and Hezbollah. … But if the president has thrown in with the neocons and War Party, and we are plunging back into the Mideast maelstrom, Trump should … An after-Easter battle is shaping up in Congress on the same issue: Is the president authorized to take us into war against Assad and…

Apr 7, 2017 – The United Kingdom is fully supportive:   “[W]e fully support the strike. … We have been in close contact with US government over the last couple of days in preparation for this. … Iran Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said in a statement that the “unilateral action is dangerous, destructive and violates…

Apr 7, 2017 – I am sympathetic to the Trump administration's disgust with the Assad regime. … The Iraq War, which I supported, is hardly an experience anyone would like to repeat. … Despots are better off having WMDs they can threaten us with, as the North Koreans and Iranians firmly believe.…

Apr 19, 2017 – Cooperate to terminate -- that's the gist of the U.S. diplomatic strategy to deal with North Korea's rogue nukes. … At the moment, South Korea has faith in its alliance with the U.S. and has no need to possess nuclear weapons. … can reach targets around the world, including the US."…

Apr 18, 2017 – "This is something President Trump is going to deal with in the first year." … Though Korea is the crisis of the moment, it is not the only one. … Russia and Iran are reportedly negotiating with the Taliban. Pakistan is said to be aiding them.…