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Posted on Mon, January 30, 2012 at 16:25 pm CET

Why We Should End Our Relationship With Pakistan

As Pakistanis burned American flags and the Washington Post wrote of “a new normal” in US-Pakistani relations earlier this month, it looked like the beginning of the end of five decades of friendly alliance between the two countries… Continue reading

Posted on Fri, January 27, 2012 at 01:10 am CET

How Much Security Will NATO’s Missile Defense Shield Provide for Turkey?

By agreeing to deploy the Army Navy Transportable Radar Surveillance System (AN/TPY-2) on Turkish soil, the United States and Turkey have concluded by far the strategically most significant agreement in many years… Continue reading

Posted on Thu, January 26, 2012 at 15:20 pm CET

Security and Defense: Israel is not About to Attack Iran and Neither is the United States

The radio superhero, The Shadow, had the power to “cloud men’s minds.” But nothing clouds men’s minds like anything that has to do with Jews or Israel… Continue reading

Posted on Wed, January 25, 2012 at 19:19 pm CET

Obama’s State of the Union Speech: My Response Discovers Some Curious Insights and Strange Formulations

In his State of the Union message, President Barack Obama began by wrapping himself in the flag, patriotism, and love of the armed forces while trying to highlight his foreign policy achievements… Continue reading

Posted on Wed, January 25, 2012 at 16:51 pm CET

America and the Arab Spring

A year ago this week, on January 25, 2011, the ground began to crumble under then-Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak’s feet… Continue reading

Posted on Tue, January 24, 2012 at 20:26 pm CET

Where the “Counter-Obama” View of the Middle East is Right and Where It’s Wrong

Diehl’s challenge to the critics of the mainstream thinking on the Middle East is very serious… Continue reading

Posted on Tue, January 24, 2012 at 19:31 pm CET

The Unvarnished Reality of Contemporary U.S.-Israel Relations

Do not speak of it in public. Do not expect any Israeli official to admit it. But Israel is facing an issue unlike anything it has had to deal with during the past 50 years… Continue reading

Posted on Tue, January 24, 2012 at 13:16 pm CET

Gold for Oil: India to Pay Gold instead of Dollars for Iranian Oil

India is the first buyer of Iranian oil to agree to pay for its purchases in gold instead of the US dollar… Continue reading

Posted on Sun, January 22, 2012 at 23:26 pm CET

USS Abraham Lincoln Transits Hormuz; USS Enterprise to Transit Hormuz in March

Three weeks after Tehran threatened action against any US aircraft carrier entering the Strait of Hormuz… Continue reading

Posted on Fri, January 20, 2012 at 20:24 pm CET

Mainstreaming anti-Semitism

Anti-Semitism may not yet be a litmus test for social acceptability in the US, but it has certainly become acceptable… Continue reading

Posted on Fri, January 20, 2012 at 00:57 am CET

Who’s Winning in the Middle East? Everyone Outside the West Knows It’s The Islamists

And the Americans brought them to power… Continue reading

Posted on Wed, January 18, 2012 at 19:51 pm CET

Can Real Liberalism and the Democratic Party Be Saved from the Radical Takeover?

The far left has at least temporarily won the battle of ideas in the United States and taken over institutions by pretending to be “liberal”… Continue reading

Posted on Tue, January 17, 2012 at 22:45 pm CET

Israel-US Relations: Netanyahu Called Off Joint US-Israel Drill

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, not the Obama administration, decided to call off the biggest ever joint US-Israeli military exercise… Continue reading

Posted on Sun, January 15, 2012 at 15:47 pm CET

US, Israel in open rift over Iran

US-Israeli discord over action against Iran went into overdrive when the White House called off the biggest joint war game the US and Israel have ever staged… Continue reading

Posted on Fri, January 13, 2012 at 13:22 pm CET

U.S. Military Build-Up Around Iran Continues

The Pentagon is substantially building up its combat power around Iran… Continue reading

Posted on Wed, January 11, 2012 at 20:23 pm CET

Iranian Nuclear Scientist Assassinated in Tehran

Prof. Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, deputy director of the first uranium enrichment facility at Natanz, was killed early Wednesday… Continue reading

Posted on Mon, January 9, 2012 at 21:18 pm CET

US, Russian, French and British air and naval forces are gathering around the Syrian and Iranian coasts

US, Russian French and British air and naval forces streamed to the Syrian and Iranian coasts over the weekend… Continue reading

Posted on Sun, January 8, 2012 at 21:24 pm CET

Such a “Great” Idea It Can Now Be Proclaimed But Not Criticized: Obama Supports the Muslim Brotherhood

The Obama Administration, as I’ve written for the last year, is favoring radical Islamist forces… Continue reading

Posted on Thu, December 29, 2011 at 10:49 am CET

Turkish-US Relations in 2011 and Beyond: There May be Trouble Ahead

The year 2011 saw a “regression toward the mean” in Turkey’s relation with the United States… Continue reading

Posted on Sun, December 25, 2011 at 22:04 pm CET

When Obama Preaches; Anti-American Dictators First Sneer At Him, Then Spit at Us

I don’t think one could come up with a more teachable moment regarding international affairs… Continue reading

Posted on Sun, December 25, 2011 at 21:19 pm CET

In The Liberal-Conservative Debate Where’s the Common Sense?

It never ceases to amaze me that both liberals and conservatives in the American debate are missing the most important point… Continue reading

Posted on Sat, December 24, 2011 at 21:39 pm CET

Tactical Allies and Strategic Rivals: Turkey’s Changing Relations with Iran

General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, a senior commander in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, declared that, if Iran came under attack from the U.S. or Israel… Continue reading