Despite Israel’s reliance on a dominated U.S. Congress as a last line of defense for its bomb-bomb-bomb-Iran strategy, other regional and global forces are moving quickly to reshape the Middle East’s geopolitical reality in a more positive way, as ex-CIA…
Tag: Middle East
The Disastrous Neocon Mindset
Why Many Muslims Hate the West
Time to Rethink US Mideast Policies
The Iran Deal’s Strategic Payoff
A ‘Free Press’ and Double Standards
Sinking Deeper into the Mideast
Rushing to War in the Wrong Places
Obama Distorts ‘Just War’ Principles
In assessing the consequences of the decade-plus “war on terror,” President Obama sought to place his continued — albeit more targeted — use of violence within the context of just-war principles, stressing self-defense and proportionality, a point that religious ethicist Daniel…
Romney’s Middle East Militancy
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney put some space between himself and President Obama on Middle East policies by suggesting a return of U.S. troops to Iraq and drawing the “red line” for Iran around the fuzzy concept of nuclear “capability,” notes Adil…