Advertisements I’ve taken on a new challenge, writing some pieces for Inter Press Service. My first article, Obama Faces Tough Choices on Mideast Diplomacy is up now, with more hopefully to come.Continue Reading
Advertisements The announcement today of a deal for reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas certainly caused a great stir. It’s worth examining what it means. Is This For Real? That’s the first question to be asked and only the coming days will provide an answer, but the early indications are thatContinue Reading
Advertisements I wrote recently of my decision to support the intervention in Libya, and the difficulty of that decision. I have rarely seen a question that has so divided people, and it’s happened on both the left and the right. I struggled with the question because there are good argumentsContinue Reading
Advertisements Sometimes, even an indecisive stance can be wrong. When it comes to the international intervention in Libya, until recent days, I was indecisive, and I was wrong. A couple of days ago, I got off that fence, and actually came down on the side I had been leaning awayContinue Reading
Advertisements Back in 2007, when John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt released their book, The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy, I disagreed with many parts of their thesis. Most of the criticisms at the time attacked the authors as anti-Semites or made straw man arguments about points the authors wereContinue Reading
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