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Iraq Signs Major Oil Deal With China

In it's first major oil deal with a foreign country since the American and British effort to bring down Saddam Hussein, China will end up winning a $3 billion contract to develop oil in Iraq. It is the first major...

Posted on July 2, 2009 4:17 AM

Like Iran, Iraq Well On The Way To Dictatorship As Well

The sham election in Iran, and the brutal suppression of the prodemocracy demonstrators in Iran reviewed Iran is little more than theocratic-military dictatorship. Unfortunately, many of the same signs are also present in Iraq as well, where Prime Minister Nouri...

Posted on July 1, 2009 10:58 AM

Iran: A "Kinder, Gentler" Death To America And Israel?

One reality that many critics on the right seem to ignore about Iran when claiming the President Obama should do more to intervene in their internal politics is that the United States is a mostly hated state by most people...

Posted on June 23, 2009 4:08 PM

The History Of Too Much Foreign Involvement In Iran

Many weekend rallies by Iranians living in the U.S. involved waving American flags and calls for more American involvement in Iran. Further, some Republicans such as John McCain continued to call for more American involvement in the political struggle. However,...

Posted on June 22, 2009 11:31 AM

The Huge Obstacles To Mideast Peace

This weekend's rigged election in Iran as well as the roadblocks thrown up by both the Israeli government and by the Palestinians only all too well prove the major obstacles to real Mideast peace. In Iran, it was pretty clear...

Posted on June 15, 2009 2:57 PM

Obama's Successful Foreign Policy Spree

This past week's successful foreign policy spree by President Obama managed to flawlessly achieve several very important objectives and to help to defocus some concern by many Americans on the controversial bankruptcy efforts to rescue both GM and Chrysler. These...

Posted on June 8, 2009 4:06 PM

Right Wing Win In Israel Could Be Troublesome For The U.S.

Although neither coalition has officially chosen the next government of Israel until February 18. It is pretty clear that moderate Tzipi Livni of the Kadima Party probably will fail to be able to form a coalition government with Labor or...

Posted on February 15, 2009 3:30 PM

Israel's Big Gamble

On the surface of it all, Israel's actions to protect their citizens from attacks from Hamas rockets that have grown more deadly and able to reach deeper into Israeli territory seems like a clearcut national security choice. One the other...

Posted on January 4, 2009 4:06 PM

Hamas Offers Nonsensical Explanation For Rocket Attacks On Israel

By now you would really think that Hamas would only realize that continued rocket attacks on Israeli civilians would only provoke a violent Israeli military action at some point. But apparently Hamas is so radicalized that common sense just doesn't...

Posted on December 31, 2008 3:08 AM

Global Tensions Could Raise Oil Prices Again Despite Lower Demand

While oil prices have witnessed a massive tumble in recent weeks in response to the lower demand impact because of the retreating global economy, new world tensions might act to send prices higher very soon. The first evidence of this...

Posted on December 29, 2008 7:20 PM

Where "The Surge" Isn't Working

Defenders of the Bush Administration continue to claim "success" for "the surge". Yet they continue to gloss over some terrible events that only continue in Iraq in which the Islamic majority continues a genocidal wave of violence to rid Iraq...

Posted on December 6, 2008 5:40 PM

Al Qaeda Website Endorses John McCain As Their Best Terrorist Weapon To Ruin U.S.

After Barack Obama gained the influential endorsement of General Colin Powell and many major newspapers including the CHICAGO TRIBUNE which hasn't endorsed a Democrat for president in 150 years, John McCain received an embarrassing endorsement from a shadowy Al Qaeda...

Posted on October 23, 2008 9:04 AM

Russian Government Efforts To Promote Mideast Peace Ignored By American Media

The American media has been running with the border security conflict news story between Georgia and Russia the last few days and unfortunately inspiring new Cold War tensions as a result. Perhaps even the slight surge of support for John...

Posted on August 23, 2008 9:16 PM

John McCain's High Risk Foreign Policy

While Senator Barack Obama flawlessly wrapped up a highly successful tour of the Mideast and Europe last week and helped to raise up respect for the United States after the frictional foreign policy of George Bush with many states...

Posted on July 28, 2008 9:11 AM

Future Oil Wars

Increasingly, these world power rivals of the U.S., all united by oil will draw in other anti-U.S. states and create a dangerous axis of anti-American oil powers and states that hate the U.S. And as oil prices still hover near record levels, the amount of vast income generated will only help to fuel the purchase or building of new and more dangerous military hardware by these anti-American oil states.

Posted on July 23, 2008 12:10 PM

Peace And Tranquility Still Elusive In Iraq

The American news media has certainly focused far less on Iraq news coverage since "the surge" has resulted in far less deaths of American service persons. Unfortunately viewing this war in a prism of how it impacts only the U.S.,...

Posted on July 18, 2008 10:04 AM

Israel Involved In Talks With Both Hamas & Syria

Despite official Israeli government resolutions not to negotiate with either terrorists or rival states that support terrorism, the government of Israel has now officially acknowledged that it is actively involved in talks with both Hamas and Syria and is seeking...

Posted on May 23, 2008 12:00 PM

The Bush-McCain Appeasement Doctrine

To many Republican politicians, the term "appeasement" conjures up dirty images of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain who had hoped to somehow construct a foreign policy of coexistence between a democratic Europe and a fascist Germany. Yet, during the Cold War years, and even now in the post-Cold War modern world with most nations still not democratic in nature, Republican presidential administrations including the Bush White House have simply practiced "appeasement" with undemocratic nations or leaders in some form or other.

Posted on May 19, 2008 12:45 PM

British Troops Stop Withdrawal To Bolster Embattled Iraqi Government

For the $500 billion dollar cost of this war in Iraq, the U.S. really hasn't achieved very much so far. The weak central government only survives from day to day with strong U.S. support. That's the honest truth.

Posted on April 3, 2008 3:30 PM

Civilian Deaths In Iraq Up 33%

Wizbang Blue's Paul Hooson asks: Does the American public really want to buy a used war from John McCain? No doubt candidate John McCain will be running for president on some "surge is working" myth platform. However it was not that long ago that the same John McCain took a photo-opt trip to an Iraqi market and claimed how "safe" it now was in Iraq to shop, not bothering to mention that nearly 100 American Apache helicopters and about 2,000 soldiers had helped to secure the area just enough for McCain to get a few pictures for political propaganda purposes.

Posted on March 6, 2008 7:15 AM

The Iran War Lobby

On the surface, Christians United For Israel appears to support some honorable goals of religious reconciliation between the Christian and Jewish community as well as fostering respect for the role of the Jewish faith in the creation of the later...

Posted on October 23, 2007 3:45 PM

Evidence Builds That U.S. Preparing To Bomb Iran

Since this weekend a flurry of new information seems to point in the direction that a bombing mission against Iran may soon take place. On Saturday morning, both MSNBC and FOX cable news reported that the U.S. military has drawn...

Posted on October 9, 2007 2:30 PM

Ahmadinejad Counters The VFW Speech By Bush With Iran's Own Muscle

Today in a speech to the VFW convention in Reno, Nevada, President Bush may have again talked tough about Iran and their nuclear program. And new French President Nicolas Sarkozy even hinted at a possible Western attack against Iran's nuclear...

Posted on August 29, 2007 1:00 PM

Four Landmark Events In The Iraq Failure

I've written so extensively about Iraq since the start of the 2003 war that I can cite four major landmark events that helped to doom the effort as a complete failure. Washington certainly could have avoided any of these...

Posted on August 23, 2007 12:17 PM

Iran Ready To Pick Up Broken Pieces Of U.S. Iraq Policy

Unfortunately, Iran only continues to prove itself to be the big winner of the failed U.S. policy efforts in Iraq. New meetings with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have apparently cemented a firmer relationship that...

Posted on August 10, 2007 1:00 PM

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