War Warning to China
While not mentioning war by name, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned China that its failure to back additional UN sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program would have serious consequences. “As we move away from the engagement track, which has not produced the result that some had hoped for, and more forward on the pressure and sanctions track, China will be under a lot of pressure to recognize the destabilizing impact that a nuclear-armed Iran would have in the Gulf, from which they receive a significant percentage of their oil supplies,” Clinton said. The “destabilizing impact” most likely would arise from an Israeli-U.S. war with Iran if Tehran developed a nuclear weapon. February 01, 2010
A Terroist Trial Shift
The Obama administration has decided not to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed and his fellow terrorists in New York City in part because doing so would heighten the risk of a terrorist attack on that city. The trial will likely be moved to a city better able to absorb a terrorist attack. Detroit is being considered. February 01, 2010
The Pentagon's Afghan Reset
February 01, 2010
Nicholas Berry
The Afghan War has been fought under the civilian and uniformed leadership of ignoramuses. Supreme confidence in the military’s ability to wage war and in established military doctrine, along with a compliant State Department, produced a strategy guaranteed to fail. ...more
Multi-Thinking about Iran: Let's be Realist
February 02, 2010
Leon T. Hardar
I've been following with great interest the many heated exchanges online and elsewhere over Council on Foreign Relation (CFR) President Richard Haass's call in a Newsweek commentary for "promoting regime change" in Iran. Haass is a self-described "card-carrying realist" and a former official in the administrations of Bush I and Bush II (he was director of policy planning for the Department of State under Secretary Colin Powell) who after retiring from government has been expressing strong criticism of the neoconservative-driven policy in the Middle East under Bush II, including in his book, War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars....more
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