Archive for November, 2013

The Deal with Iran

The Obama administration’s accord with Iran is an important accomplishment. Iran will freeze its enrichment of uranium and convert its stockpile of 20% enriched uranium into a form that is not susceptible to further enrichment.  The significance of the pact ...

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Drone Strikes and Morality

A Yemeni civil engineer recently recounted to US Congressmen how he witnessed a drone strike that took the lives of his brother-in-law and nephew.   His brother-in law was a cleric who had spoken out against Al Qaeda and was unfortunate ...

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Where Are We Now (Politically, that is)

I intended, when I first started this blog, to open with a broad overview of where US politics has been going in recent decades and where it might be headed.  I didn’t get to do that because other more immediate ...

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Friedman on Shavit on Israel

I’ve never been a fan of Thomas Friedman’s.  His breathless writings on globalization are way out of balance in their undercounting of the costs of unfettered capitalism.  His support for George W. Bush’s war with Iraq rested on the incredibly ...

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C’mon, are the Republicans really crazy?

I’ve gotten some friendly pushback, outside of this website, from readers who question the appropriateness of my “crazy” characterization of the Republican Party.  After all, can a whole political party really be crazy? Besides, in calling people crazy, aren’t I ...

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Center-Right or Center-Left?

MSNBC host Ed Schultze, surveying Tuesday’s election and referendum results, pronounced the United States a “center-left country.” Only an unvarnished partisan could draw that conclusion from the mixed results of an odd/off-year election, but Schultze was undoubtedly pushing back against ...

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Palestine: Dueling Historic Narratives

Today’s New York Times reported on a recent study of Israeli and Palestinian Arab history textbooks.  Most of the article is dedicated to Hamas’s latest textbooks, which clearly reflect that organization’s unwillingness to recognize the legitimacy of any Jewish presence—much ...

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