The Egyptian Army has already gotten half of its country angry at the United States for supporting it in the old Mubarak days. Now it’s opened fire on its fellow citizens who happen to be pro-democracy supporters, so they’re even angrier with us. And the remainder of Egypt’s citizens thought because we weren’t demanding that …
Lessee, other than Major League Baseball suspending thirteen players for performance-enhancing drugs and one of them appealing, Jeff Bezos of Amazon buying The Washington Post, nineteen embassies and consulates around the world closed by the United States and the International Business Times buying the husk that is Newsweek from The Daily Beast, it was a …
I hope I have as much regard for the suffering of the Syrian population as anyone else, but even in light of the news that the regime may have used chemical weapons against the rebels I don’t feel very good about the United States supplying them with weapons. Remember the term “Blowback?” We lost a …
All you interventionists who advocate for using the US military to somehow “stop” the civil war in Syria and indirectly pick a pro-Western winner, can you look around at our previous record of trying to establish Jeffersonian democracies in the region first? What’s happened with Iraq? Well, it’s closer to Iran than it is to …
Here’s Joe Klein on Morning Joe yesterday morning, slamming Netanyehu’s attempt to pressure the US into stating we’ll bomb Iran when Israel wants us to. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Here’s his column amplifying on what he says on the tube. I don’t know enough to agree in …
When even your own side is condemning your words as “an utter disaster”, you’d think your best course might be to shut up. Romney should have been reminded that there are four dead Americans there and they’re due some respect. Perhaps he was and decided that attempting to score political points was more important to …
The Egyptian Army Saturday decided unilaterally that it would limit the rights of the new President, whoever he might be, and that it would control the budget as well. Under the generals’ decree, Egypt’s president will have no control over the military’s budget or leadership and will not be authorized to declare war without the …
So St. John McCain, who never met a foreign policy situation he didn’t think could be improved by inserting US military force into it, is now calling for air strikes against Syria. Three of the four candidates for the Republican nomination to be President want to threaten Iran (Ron Paul is a non-interventionist). Comically, Romney …
Which Senator said this yesterday upon learning of Qaddafi’s death? There is a lot of money to be made in the future in Libya. Lot of oil to be produced. You’d think that would be one of the Senators from the oil patch, but no. It was Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. I have nothing …
I think your best bet for the most current news about the situation in Libya is probably al-Jazeera’s live blog. The latest is that Tripoli’s citizens themselves have joined the uprising. This has major implications for the political future of the country, says Professor Juan Cole: This development, with the capital creating its own nationalist …