Romney’s Foreign Policy Speech Was All Fear, No Substance
Mitt Romney’s eagerly awaited foreign policy speech at the Citadel was welcomed by neoconservative hawks who supported the George W. Bush administration’s adventurist foreign policy. But Romney’s...
View ArticleFlawed News Reporting on Iran
via Lobe Log On Monday the Wall Street Journal published a breathless article about Iran sending troops to bolster Syria. Quite a bit of the piece is a re-write of a previous story based on anonymous...
View ArticleThe Daily Talking Points
via Lobe Log “U.S., allies in Gulf naval exercise as Israel, Iran face off”: Reuters reports on the mineclearing exercise scheduled to take place in the coming days in the Strait of Hormuz: Publicly...
View ArticleFact-Checking the Fact Checkers: Romney’s Foreign Policy Speech
via Lobe Log With the widely touted shift in the public opinion polls after the first presidential debate, Mitt Romney is no longer an underdog. That being the case, his pronouncements are attracting...
View ArticleSwedish FM: Sanctions should be part of the policy, not the policy
via Lobe Log by Jasmin Ramsey Observers of the conflict over Iran’s nuclear program will be familiar with Sweden’s Foreign Minister, Carl Bildt. Around this time last year, the outspoken diplomat and...
View ArticleIsrael’s Fraying Image and Its Implications
by Chas Freeman via the Middle East Policy Council It is a privilege to have been asked to join this discussion of Jacob Heilbrunn’s account of Israel’s fraying image. His article seems to me...
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