The Middle East is hardly a cheery place these days. But there’s one silver lining: The Iran deal is paying off big.
After Iran, Is North Korea Next?
The Obama administration has concluded deals with Iran and Cuba. Will North Korea round out the trifecta?
The 47 Republican Samurai
The Senate GOP’s letter to Iran was an act of vengeance for their discredited code of honor: neoconservatism.
Is Obama Really Adrift in the World?
Four myths American exceptionalists peddle about the U.S. president and America’s role in the world.
The Attack-Syria Coalition’s Neocon Roots
The Project for the New Century targeted Syria and Iran as sponsors of Hezbollah.
Congress Pushes for War with Iran
In another resolution apparently designed to prepare for war against Iran, the U.S. House of Representatives, in an overwhelmingly bipartisan 401–11 vote, has passed a resolution (HR 568) urging the president to oppose any policy toward Iran “that would rely on containment as an option in response to the Iranian nuclear threat.”
The Right’s Curious Nostalgia for Military Rule
Neoconservatives are finding the entry of a Muslim Brotherhood candidate in the race for Egypt’s presidency hard to swallow.
Iraq and the Limits of U.S. Power
“Washington has lost a valuable opportunity to nurture and support a key counterweight to Iranian influence among Shiites in the Arab world,” lament Danielle Pletka and Gary Schmitt of the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute in an op-ed for the Washington Post. They subsequently call on the Obama administration to bulk up its already grossly overloaded staff at the gigantic U.S. embassy in Baghdad. But in these few words, the two writers fleshed out a more fundamental concern for hawkish pundits in the Middle East: the fear of a “Shia Crescent” of Iranian-backed regimes in Bagdad, Beirut, and Damascus linking the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf.
The Not-About-Iraqi-Oil Iraqi Oil Map
Iraqi oil was always foremost in the minds of neocons.
Neocons Gag on Ron Paul
Ron Paul is a pariah to establishment Republicans and neocons.