Month: September 2013

These Republicans in disarray articles never get old. Here’s the best part of this one: Many GOP lawmakers share that frustration privately and several have gone so far as to call their party “leaderless.”...

I’ve written two Syria pieces, one last night and one this morning, that seek to debunk the idea that we’re in a proxy war against Russia on the side of the Sunnis in a regional war against the Shiites, and that the...

I think Marcy Wheeler’s analysis on Syria is very good. As I’ve mentioned before, there seems to be buy-in even from the neo-conservative crowd that conditions on the ground in Syria are not yet ripe for regime...

Back when all this began, when the Bush administration decided that the Shiite power they had unleashed by invading Iraq was a bigger threat to American interests in the Middle East than the Sunni-led insurgency they were facing...