The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) has now corrected some of the errors I pointed out in my Oct. 24 article, "U.S.-Funded 'Iran Primer' Needs Editing." More can be done. For one thing, they had an impossibly wrong date for an Ahmadinejad speech in their Iran...
UNITED NATIONS - When the shah of Iran, a strongly pro-U.S. ally, was ousted from power after the Islamic Revolution in 1979, the stridently anti-U.S. regime of Ayatollah Khomeini that captured power also inherited a military bonanza: billions of dollars worth of...
Oh, good. I see that Sen. Lindsey Graham wants to attack Iran. The U.S., he says, should "sink their navy, destroy their air force, and deliver a decisive blow to the Revolutionary Guard." Sen. Graham has the brains of a tapeworm, making him eminently qualified for...
Less than a week after Republicans made major gains in the U.S. midterm elections, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called on President Barack Obama to "create a credible threat of military action" against Iran. Initial official reaction was negative,...
Listen to Rep. Paul deliver this speech by clicking here. This month the U.S. administration notified Congress that it intends to complete one of the largest arms sales in U.S. history to one of the most repressive regimes on earth. Saudi Arabia has been given the...
Though Obama "may lose control of Congress," says columnist David Broder, he "can still storm back to win a second term in 2012." How does Broder suggest Obama go about it? "Look back at FDR and the Great Depression. What finally resolved that economic crisis? World...
You can't turn on the TV news or pick up a paper these days without stumbling across the latest political poll and the pros explaining how to parse it, or some set of commentators, pundits, and reporters placing their bets on the midterm elections. The media, of...
A newly released WikiLeaks document on Iraq and the new political alignment between Moqtada al-Sadr and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki both provide fresh evidence that Gen. David Petraeus's war against Shi'ite militias in 2007-2008 was a futile exercise. The...
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is in Tehran garnering support for his claim to another term as premier while at least 10 Iraqis were killed and 22 more were wounded in new violence back home. Also, one U.S. soldier was killed in a non-combat event in southern Iraq....
