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Pentagon Will Extend Air Force Tanker Bid If Euro Giant Shows Real Interest

By | 03.31.10 | 5:40 pm

It’s been a tough road to refurbishing the Air Force’s refueling tanker fleet. The Pentagon’s KC-X tanker bid has seen Northrup Grumman drop out in frustration. European defense giant EADS has been playing coy about bidding on the multi-billion-dollar contract. EADS said earlier this month it’s considering More…

Sarah Palin Needs a Better Set of Foreign Policy Advisers

By | 03.31.10 | 10:15 am

Just up on her Facebook page, this critique of the Obama administration’s approach to dealing with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

The Obama administration has their priorities exactly backwards; we should be working with our friend and democratic ally to stop Iran’s nuclear program, not throwing in the towel

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Liveblogging the Obama/Brown/Sarkozy Iran Announcement

By | 09.25.09 | 8:48 am

I’m not in Pittsburgh, but I do have al-Jazeera English on my TV, so here’s the announcement from the leaders of the U.S., the U.K. and France, revealing the existence of (another) heretofore undisclosed nuclear facility in Iran. The facility is reportedly still under construction, and the Iranians have More…

Iran Hiding a Nuclear Facility?

By | 09.25.09 | 8:38 am

Perhaps Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s new, harsher rhetoric on Iran has a specific catalyst. The New York Times reports that President Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicholas Sarkozy will disclose that Iran has for years constructed an undisclosed — and as-yet-unoperational — nuclear facility. More…