Cato Institute senior fellow Ted Galen Carpenter writes, “If the congressional hawks and their allies in the foreign policy community and the conservative news media have their way, than war with Iran would be inevitable. But as such beaters of war drums contend, this is not a cause for worry, as the resulting conflict would […]
Iran a Nuclear Power?
Former CIA bin Laden Unit chief Michael Scheuer writes, “It is extremely likely that Iran will — as its genuine national interests clearly demand — string out the negotiations with Obama, Kerry and their fellow ahistorical European colleagues until it can surprise the world by testing a nuclear device. In speaking about U.S.-Cuba relations this […]
Israel: A Harder Sell to Americans
Here in the American Conservative, TAC founding editor Scott McConnell looks at the lunacy of Mark Kirk’s (Republican, Illinois) comment about “a mushroom cloud near Tehran” and John McCain’s equally quack comment about Israel going rogue and attacking Iran. Americans are better served by taking a good look at Aaron Stein’s article in War on […]
A Prolonged War with Iran?
Daniel Larison in the American Conservative writes: Attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities would be the beginning of a new open-ended military commitment and the start of a prolonged war with Iran whose effects will probably surprise us by being even worse than we imagined beforehand. On top of all that, it is likely that such a […]
Common Ground with Iran?
Is there any common ground to be had with Iran? Pat Buchanan argues that the Israelis and their powerful lobby AIPAC, the Saudis and their Sunni allies on the Persian Gulf, a near unanimity of Republicans, and a plurality of Democrats in Congress do not want any détente with Iran, never mind a nuclear deal. […]
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