Category: General

We will be discussing Iran, the bleak binary choice, and whether or not there is a third (or fourth, or fifth) option.

There is breaking news via Taylor Marsh that Hillary Clinton will support Senator Webb’s Resolution demanding that the President seek Congressional approval before any military action against Iran and prohibiting the use of funds for military operations in Iran.

Tonight, I received Hillary Clinton‘s formal statement explaining her vote on the Kyl-Lieberman Iran Resolution — and her assertion that this did not amount to Congressional authorization for actions against Iran. Clinton stated: “Earlier today, I voted for a non-binding resolution that designates the Iranian Revolution Guard as a terrorist organization.

As all eyes turn to Myanmar with brutal crackdowns by the military junta (including reports of a Japanese reporter murdered and school children being fired upon), international condemnations, speculation of a “saffron revolution,” and China caught between a policy of noninterference and brutal crackdown on its borders that could turn into a public relations disaster,…

It turns out that John Bolton’s recent lobbying against the Law of the Sea represents a major flip-flop.

There are many including this writer who have been documenting the internal decision-making divisions inside President Bush’s White House.

Some of the leading opponents of the Law of the Sea, ironically, feel very strongly that we should trust the judgments of military personnel on military matters. Jim Inhofe: “I don’t think it’s too much to expect for our leaders in Washington to keep an open mind and get the facts before drawing their conclusions….

Joe Wilson is off in Nevada campaigning for Hillary Clinton. Joe and I think similarly on many national security issues — and we have like-minded disdain for what Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bush, John Bolton and others have done to America’s global position.

I’m not in a place to judge the veracity of Dan Rather’s reporting on Bush’s National Guard service, but as usual, Sidney Blumenthal has done an extraordinary job sequencing the bits and pieces of the Rather CBS story and suggests that Rather’s $70 million lawsuit against CBS will animate some much needed truth-telling about Bush’s…

A lot of folks out there think I’m a sucker for good email notes — or very effective, personalized fundraising appeals like Hillary Clinton’s invitation to all of us (including me) to possibly have lunch with her, after she picked up the groceries and with her husband dropping by to say hello.