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Today it was announced that an American citizen has been sentenced to death in Iran after being successfully convicted of “working for an enemy country … for membership in the CIA and also for his efforts to accuse Iran of involvement in terrorism.” Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, a former U.S. Marine, was arrested in August while [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Iraq, Politics, War, World
Bill Kristol and Charles Krauthammer have been sort of doleful in their appearances on FOX News lately, looking like their hearts are just not in it. Not hard to see why: it looks like cardboard cut-out and moderate Republican Mitt Romney will be their party’s presidential nominee. On the national security front, it’s been difficult [...]
Filed under: Politics, Uncategorized, War
In the wake of Rick Santorum’s apparent win in Iowa yesterday and recalling his enthusiasm for attacking Iran, it is important to realize that political useful idiots like Santorum can trigger developments that have real world consequences. The growing consensus in the US – fueled by the media and all the Republican candidates but Ron [...]
Filed under: War
WTTG Fox reports that Iran exaggerated their missile capabilities and engaged in some North Korean-style Photoshop trickery during the ten-day war games in the Strait of Hormuz. The exercises were planned to show Tehran’s strength in the face of threatened sanctions, including one on Iran’s central bank. But as it turns out, Iran lacks the ability [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, War, World
The New York Times puts this question to the GOP contenders. Sophistry ensues. “Under what circumstances, if any, would the Constitution permit the president to authorize the targeted killing of a United States citizen who has not been sentenced to death by a court,” the paper asks. Gingrich, Huntsman, Perry, and Romney take the same [...]
Filed under: War
I received a “happy holidays” email from The Atlantic’s ubiquitous Steve Clemons yesterday. Normally I stop dead when I see the expression “happy holidays” but on this occasion I persevered and was rewarded with a bit of political folderol which was too deliciously bizarre not to share. Steve is a progressive who sees himself as a [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized, War
The latest line of attack on the Texas congressman, courtesy of his ex-staffer Eric Dondero, has it that Ron Paul would not have taken us into World War II to stop the Holocaust. “He expressed to me countless times, that ‘saving the Jews,’ was absolutely none of our business,” Dondero claims. Of course, that’s exactly [...]
Bloomberg’s Roxana Tiron reports on the cozy relationship between Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney’s advisers and the businesses most adept at siphoning off the taxpayer’s money in the name of war and bogus security: Five of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney’s 41 national security and foreign policy advisers have links to companies that last year [...]
Three days before Christmas a New York Federal Judge George Daniels signed a default judgment that found Iran, the Taliban, and al-Qaeda responsible for 9/11. The judgment was the end result of a ten year judicial process in which family members of victims of the attacks have been seeking $100 billion from those held responsible. Previous [...]
Filed under: War
Returning from Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta dropped some jolting news. Asked by CBS’s Scott Pelley if Iran could have a nuclear weapon in 2012, Panetta replied: “It would probably be about a year before they could do it. Perhaps a little less. But one proviso, Scott, is that if they have [...]