Surely, I thought, the critically acclaimed Argo would be an intelligent film. Directed by noted progressive Ben Affleck, I had high hopes that the film would tackle complex subject matter in a responsible and nuanced way. But while well-intentioned, Argo failed to deliver, falling into the common Hollywood trap of making Muslims into a monolithic Green Menace.
To the Netanyahu administration, attacking Gaza may be killing two birds with one stone.
The United States should consider taking China up on its four-point peace plan for Syria.
It’s the consensus among the pundits: foreign policy doesn’t matter in this presidential election. They point to the ways Republican candidate Mitt Romney has more or less parroted President Barack Obama on just about everything other than military spending and tough talk about another “American century.” The consensus is wrong. There is an issue that matters: Iran.
He felt that, as a friend to Israel, he was obliged to tell them to discontinue engaging in acts that were both immoral and threatened its own self-interest.
The Project for the New Century targeted Syria and Iran as sponsors of Hezbollah.
The war of words over Iran’s nuclear program keeps expanding.
Compared to the interests of Jerusalem, Tehran, and Washington, those of the Iranian people come in a distant last.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s unrelenting pressure on the Obama administration to back him in his threats toward Iran backfired on him.
There seems to be no way that Iran can retain its self-respect in talks with the U.S., Russia, China, U.K., France and Germany.