Category: Middle East

I normally try to avoid predictions — they have a nasty tendency to come back and bite me on the ass — but I’m going to go out on …

We’re getting closer to the Palestinians’ appeal to the United Nations for recognition as a sovereign state — Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the Palestinian Authority is in New …

As we wind up the August of the “Arab Spring,” I find myself thinking that the chaos in the Middle East was foretold. Some people saw how it would …

The Libyan rebellion just might be entering the endgame. Fox News is reporting that rebel forces are at the outskirts of Tripoli, that they have captured one of K-Daffy’s …

In case you missed this amid yesterday’s debt ceiling clamor, outgoing Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen admitted that the “kinetic military action” in Libya …

I’m seeing this make the rounds on the old blogosphere (from Nina Shea). The United Postal Service’s guidelines for what you can’t send to Islamic countries: Obscene articles (prints, …

Our credentialed, though duly elected, idiot is failing miserably in the real world of international diplomacy. He has squandered much, and gained nothing.

Like most people, I like to think that I tend to strike a compromise between principle and pragmatism in most issues. I like to think that I am guided …

Yesterday, I half-listened to President Obama's speech on the Middle East -- his voice has a droning quality that leave me MEGO (My Eyes Glaze Over) if I listen …

Were they so arrogant in their self righteousness that they believed they could change the nature of the issues and the actors involved by merely being fresh faces?