Author: Patrick Lang

Dan Halutz is the first IDF chief of staff who is not a soldier. He is a military aviator. I had missed that, but a statement attributed to a “senior officer” of the IDF in a New York Times story today caused me to...

“National Security Adviser Mouwafak al-Rubaie, meanwhile, traveled to the Shiite holy city of Najaf on Tuesday to meet with Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani, the Shiite community’s most revered spiritual leader....

This briefing was sent to me by a concerned citizen. So far as I know and by its markings it is completely unclassified and in the public domain. It is not even marked “For Official Use Only” (FOUO). Since it is so...

by Patrick Lang (bio below) People pay schools money to have this man [Francis Fukuyama] teach their children? I wonder of he does the dog-paddle or the back stroke as he swims away from the ship?  His detailed account of...

by Patrick Lang (bio below) The Council on Foreign Affairs folks talked to me today about the present inter-communal violence in Iraq. Pat Lang Lang: Political Process Will Move Forward in Iraq, Despite Sectarian Violence...