The Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Committee on the Present Danger, two front organizations in the neoconservative network, will try and move a “military strike” against Iran a notch closer tomorrow. Monday morning, 9:30 a.m., in SC-6 of the U.S. Capitol, war-profiteer and former CIA Director R.
Oakley really does not want me to leave town again. But I must. For those of you who are in the San Francisco Bay area, TWN is planning a trip out there tomorrow, arriving in the morning. I return to Washington on Wednesday.
Jim VandeHei, White House Correspodent for the Washington Post, gave a nice plug to TWN on Friday in the Post‘s daily online political discussion. In the early part of discussion, a reader asked VandeHei what sources he uses to “get his news”: Baton Rouge, La.
Paul Wolfowitz, architect of America’s failing foray into Iraq as Rumsfeld’s former Deputy at the Pentagon, now heads the World Bank and finally seems like his true self is coming out of the closet.
Although I disagreed with the primary thrust of Dana Priest’s book, The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America’s Military, there is little doubt that she is one of the best intelligence and defense correspondents in the business.
As I have stressed a number of times on TWN, I am not into ideological zealotry — from the right or the left.
I have to admit that I have never had a hard time constraining my enthusiasm for either Al Gore or John Kerry, but at the same time, Gore’s recent speeches have been stemwinders and offer us a glimpse into the kind of appealing president he might have been.
This piece in the Boston Globe today is well worth spending some time reading and thinking through. To share the beginning of the article: In 1973 the historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
As TWN reported a few weeks ago, we are preparing to launch a new zone in the blogosphere dedicated to reporting on the work and activities of recess-appointed U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton.
If you have the time and interest, watch for an interesting program this evening on C-Span featuring John Siegenthaler, a distinguished journalist and first editorial page editor at USA Today as well as the founder of the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University; Jim Brady, Executive Editor of Washington Post.
