Key neoconservatives and other right-wing hawks who championed the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq are calling for military strikes against Iran in retaliation for its purported murder-for-hire plot against the Saudi ambassador. Leading the charge is the Foreign Policy...
Rick Perry and the Neocons
The only change anyone can believe in in Washington is that nothing ever changes. The choice between Republican and Democrat in 2012 will likely boil down to who will be making what kind of cuts in social programs to support continuous warfare overseas. Only Ron Paul...
Winners and Losers
John Bolton, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations, is again calling on the United States to attack Iran even though he acknowledged that doing so would likely ignite a much larger regional war. But, characteristically, he dismissed the costs as worth...
Neocons Return to War Debate With a Vengeance
Up until now, the neoconservatives within the national security establishment had been almost demure and decorous, content like cats to paw at the growing number of “isolationists” among the GOP coming out against the U.S. intervention in Libya and for a more rapid...
Jihad Hunters vs. the Neocons
Kerry Calls for Regime Change in Libya
As Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi vowed to hang on to power, a close congressional ally of U.S. President Barack Obama Tuesday called for an end to his regime. "The Gadhafi government's use of deadly force against its own people should mean the end of the regime...
Tear Down This Wall (of Fame): Reagan’s Overrated Foreign Policy
A visit to the remote Reagan ranch in the mountains near Santa Barbara, Calif., on the 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth set me thinking about Reagan's foreign policy record. Conservatives have venerated Reagan for limiting government and winning the Cold War...
A Surge of People Power in the Middle East
From his weekly perch at CNN, Fareed Zakaria speculated recently whether George Bush could take credit for the events that were unfolding in Tunisia, whether this was the late fruit of the neoconservative project to bring "democracy" to the Middle East. It is quite...