I have been digging deeper and deeper into various aspects of the alleged Spring 2003 Iran proposal.

This afternoon at Brookings in a session moderated by former Ambassador and Brookings foreign policy division chief Carlos Pascual, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman and presidential contender Joseph Biden gave an impressive speech focused on U.S. options toward Iraq. Here is the video link for the Biden speech, and here is the audio link.

This conference will proceed as scheduled today — despite the weather. The US Senate just informed us that they are open, caterers are there — and I’ll be there. For those of you iced and snowed in, read Glenn Kessler’s piece today — and look for news from Flynt Leverett on this subject later today….

(Iran Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi and former Swiss Ambassador to Iran Tim Guldimann) Imagine dealing with Iran when few Americans had heard of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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This is a nice dose of good news for once. North Korea has agreed to begin permanently dismantling its main nuclear reactor in exchange for a pile of aid from the U.S., South Korea, China and Russia. I have written about Asst.

I feel awkward posting a link to this special that ran on Fox News on the topic of “Radical Islam.” It is the single worst piece of television journalism engaging in hyperbolic fear-mongering that I have seen.

On the night of September 19, 2006, I was up in New York covering the Clinton Global Initiative as a journalist/blogger and extremely impressed with the vitality and relationships of Bill Clinton’s global network.

This morning, I am out in Chestertown, Maryland blogging at the “Play it Again, Sam Coffee Shop” and catching up with thing. My email at my office is out again, so now I am catching up on reading — stuff on paper rather than electronic bits.

In my capacity as head of foreign policy programs at the New America Foundation, I along with Trita Parsi, who is President of the National Iranian American Council, have produced a conference together that will take place in a Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing Room, Dirksen Senate Office Building Room 628, on Wednesday next week,…