The costs of America’s invasion and occupation of Iraq have tied up a staggering amount of resources that could have otherwise been deployed to great and necessary purposes elsewhere — at home and abroad.
(This is a guest post by Daniel Levy, policy director of the Geneva Initiative; Tel Aviv, Israel and as of Thursday this week the new Fellow and Director of the Middle East Initiative at the New America Foundation and Century Foundation) 10 Comments on the Current Crisis in the Middle East by Daniel Levy Comments…
Kenichi Ohmae, one of Japan’s better known elder futurists, once wrote a best-seller, Borderless World — which thought through what eventually became known as globalization and the integration that has come to some corners of the world with the information age.
General Wesley Clark, who I have no doubt would be managing matters in the Middle East with far greater skill and attention than our incumbent President, made a blunt nudge at Senator Joe Lieberman on Friday. Clark was blogging about the 2006 Elections on DailyKos.
George Will has sent to his client list a most amazing article — appearing in tomorrow’s Washington Post — that is a full-throttle attack on The Weekly Standard. Will blasts The Weekly Standard five times in his short, 770-word piece.
Bill Kristol is not the only one who wants America dragged into a worsening conflagration in the Middle East.
(U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez and Ahmed Chalabi) There are some interesting strategic advisory firms out there — Kissinger McLarty Associates, The Albright Group LLC, The Scowcroft Group, The Ashcroft Group LLC, Wesley K.
For Sunday morning politics show followers, yesterday’s critiques of Israel’s actions and of the neoconservatives in America were heartening.
When I visited Israel in March, one of the more interesting dinner discussions I had was with former Mossad Director Danny Yatom, now a Labor Party member of the Knesset. As head of the Mossad, Yatom gave orders to have the head of Hamas, Khaled Meshal, assassinated by poison.
(Sam Seder and Janeane Garofalo of Air America’s “Majority Report“) Tonight, 8:30 p.m. — Juan Cole and I will both be on with Sam and Janeane talking about the big mess in the Middle East up til 9:00 p.m.
