EAST JERUSALEM - Palestinian politicians and Israeli political analysts are warning of a third Palestinian Intifadah following serious rioting in East Jerusalem last Sunday. Clashes broke out between Palestinians protesters and Israeli security forces after a group of...
There is no such thing a "victory" in the kinds of wars we're fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. The best one can hope for in these types of conflicts – counterinsurgency efforts in far-flung corners of the globe with fuzzy objectives and vague necessity – is...
Empathy is a term that connotes the touchy-feely notion of getting in touch with someone else's feelings or perspective. That's what psychotherapists and social workers do. It obviously has no place in the hard-knocks world of foreign affairs and national security. Or...
Ron Rosenbaum, journalist (the New York Observer, Slate.com), author, and one of the few liberals to sign on to the ill-fated Pajamas Media fiasco, is damned mad: "Will all the pundits who relied on the discredited 2007 NIE on Iran now admit that they were wrong? That...
The story line that dominated media coverage of the second Iranian uranium enrichment facility last week was the official assertion that U.S. intelligence had caught Iran trying to conceal a "secret" nuclear facility. But an analysis of the transcript of...
