Via Spencer Ackerman, Fred Kagan had a pretty remarkable op-ed in Friday’s Wall Street Journal that I had missed until now. Check out Spencer’s post,…
Ezra has a great suggestion for how to protest the McCain campaign’s Islamophobic, anti-Arab campaign against Columbia Professor Rashid Khalidi:
Presumably, this experience has not…
It looks like the 2009 Iranian presidential race could get very, very interesting:
TEHRAN — Former President Mohammad Khatami, a moderate under pressure by political…
I second Dylan’s take on Iran hysteria, particularly the stuff about how people tend to assume Iran will act in a completely irrational, suicidal manner,…
Los Angeles Times media critic Tim Rutten wants you to know that he’s very, very disappointed in your lack of moral seriousness:
[Islamist radicals] mean…
Jamie Kirchick’s piece in the current issue of The Weekly Standard is worth responding to, as it perfectly encapsulates much of what’s flawed about the…
From the AP:
Iraq and the United States have agreed on a date for the departure of American combat troops, as part of a broader…
Forty-six activists, including a Holocaust survivor, are sailing from Cyprus to Gaza seeking to deliver supplies and raise awareness about the the heinous ongoing humanitarian…
Over at the Huffington Post, Ron Suskind has a bit more explanation about his bombshell revelation:
The Iraq Intelligence Chief, Tahir Jalil Habbush — a…
From Politico:
A new book by the author Ron Suskind claims that the White House ordered the CIA to forge a back-dated, handwritten letter from…
One of the first moves in the war on terror was embracing Pakistan by giving it billions of dollars in military aid in exchange for…
Earlier today, Aaron posted about a new RAND Corporation study showing the historical ineffectiveness of combating terrorism with a military response, rather than one based…
Despite alleged attempted coups and the prospect of the very popular ruling party being declared illegal, Turkey, and specifically Istanbul, is a wonderful place to…
After singing “Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran” to the tune of “Barbara Ann,” joking about “beating [his] wife,” and stating that he “hates Gooks”…
Over at Campus Progress today, Nicholle Manners evaluates a new Sundance series that’s supposed to be creating cross-cultural relations between Americans and Arabs, but seems…
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