Author: Jeff Huber

I had to say one last thing about the Iraq situation before leaving on a short vacation. Saturday, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki again called for an end to sectarian violence in that country.  The same day, police found 20...

I’m leaving Monday for a week in the Carolinas, and reckon it’s as good a time as any to summarize how I see the American situation at the end of August in the neoconservative year of our Lord 2006. On the...

Once again, American intelligence is “darn good” unless it doesn’t tell the darn Bush administration what it wants to hear, darn it.  Mark Mazetti of the New York Times reported yesterday that the...

The U.S. continues to dig itself into a deeper hole in the Middle East. Helene Cooper of the New York Times writes today on aspects of the Iran situation I’ve been tracking at Pen and Sword. It was always going to be tough...

Yesterday, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei announced that Iran will refuse demands that it give up its nuclear enrichment program.  No one should be surprised at that–it was an entirely predictable...