President Obama made six recess appointments Wednesday, allowing officials to bypass Senate confirmation to serve for approximately one year. One of those appointments was an ambassador to Syria, a position that had been vacant since 2005 after the Bush administration withdrew the ambassador over suspected Syrian involvement in the More…
A year after President Obama’s speech in Cairo vowing to reset relations with the Muslim world, Muslims worldwide are telling pollsters about their disillusionment with what they consider unfulfilled expectations.
According to the Pew Center’s new survey of global attitudes (PDF), released Thursday morning, citizens of Muslim nations report More…
As if to remind people why there was a “serious” CIA program possibly aimed at assassinating members of al-Qaeda, bin Laden lieutenant Ayman Zawahiri has a new audiotape message to the Pakistani people. It’s what you’d expect: only Zawahiri’s allies in the Pakistani Taliban represent the historic More…
With the long-awaited announcement of Defense Secretary Bob Gates’ “hard-choices” budget coming in about an hour, there’s been a lot of talk this morning about Greg Jaffe’s piece in The Washington Post on U.S. defense planners’ fascination with the Israel-Hezbollah war of 2006. As Greg writes, and More…
There’s no sugarcoating this. Israel is looking like a country that is quickly losing its mind. Consider this statement:
In an interview Tuesday, Ambassador Gabriela Shalev said Israel’s main goal is to “destroy completely” what she called a “terrorist gang.”
I truly truly hope this is empty rhetoric. Because More…
Matt Bai’s long article on Sen. Barack Obama in this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine is already reverberating among news junkies. There’s plenty of political and racial points to debate.
One passage really caught my eye, because I attended the same small-town Obama event in southwestern Virginia that More…
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