During the 2008 presidential campaign, one of Sen. John "bomb, bomb, bomb Iran" McCain's favorite bons mots was that "There is only one thing worse than military action [against Iran], and that is a nuclear armed Iran." As with so much else that McCain said during that campaign,...

In an article exploring the Ahmadinejad-led "purge" of Iran's intelligence service, David Ignatius relays this story:

One Iranian political figure has told a Western intermediary that the Obama administration may have unwittingly encouraged the regime's power grab by sending two letters to Khamenei before the June election. The first,...

Last week, responding to international criticism of Israeli plans to build new Jewish homes in an Arab neighborhood of Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman "ordered embassies abroad to use a photo of Adolf Hitler meeting a top Palestinian cleric."

The decision to circulate a 1941 photo...

The message of Ehud Olmert's op-ed this morning is simple: Despite it's promises not to take actions that would prejudice a final outcome, for years, Israel has gotten away with building and expanding settlements on occupied Palestinian land. But now the Obama administration has called them on this....

Earlier today, President Obama delivered a speech to Moscow's New Economic School, in which he outlined his vision for the future U.S.-Russia relationship.

While there was much in the speech that was notable, I think this was a key passage:

Like President Medvedev and myself, you're...

The President's Critics Can't Tell The Difference Between Weakness And Wisdom

Over the last week, as Iranian demonstrators have inspired the world by taking to the streets in defiance of Iran's authoritarian government, a number of American conservatives have engaged in a cynical campaign against President Obama's foreign...

Last week, Ali Gharib made the important point that what's happening in Iran is thus far not a rejection of the Islamic republic, but a struggle over its founding principles. Reviewing Moussavi's formal statement Saturday, Gary Sick described it as diagnosis of "a revolution gone wrong," writing that...

Dear Mr. Kagan,

First, let me just express sympathy for your situation. These last years have been extraordinarily unkind to your grand theories about the transformative potential of American explosives. President Bush's "global war on terror," the invasion of Iraq, his so-called "freedom agenda," turned out to be a...

What do you do if your previous organization -- and the ideology behind it -- has become inextricably bound in the public's imagination to one of the worst foreign policy blunders in American history? Obviously, shut it down, and start a new organization with a new name.

Originally appeared on The Wonk Room.

It looks like Bill Kristol may be making good on his threat to revive the Project for the New American Century. Since May, visitors to PNAC's website were informed that "this account has been suspended," but now the website is...

with Ed Paisley, Vice President for Editorial, and Brian Katulis, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund.

In his new book, The War Within, Bob Woodward describes U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's initial skepticism about proposals for a troop "surge" when it was first being discussed among...

Over the past few months, as John McCain has waged his relentless campaign of blatantly dishonest personal attacks against Barack Obama -- after McCain promised an "honorable campaign, one that is marked by respect" -- I haven't been able to shake the feeling of déjà vu.

A couple weeks ago,...