Shut Up and Talk!
The White House needs to shut up with its threats and start talking with Iran. Threats empower the hawks in Tehran with Bush's favorite weapon: fear.
The White House needs to shut up with its threats and start talking with Iran. Threats empower the hawks in Tehran with Bush's favorite weapon: fear.
Byron Williams | Posted 11.22.2007 | Politics
Recent history has caused me to be more suspicious of the informality of resolutions that carry a potential war component as mere window dressing.
Bill Moyer | Posted 11.06.2007 | Politics
Professor Stephen Zunes' idea of establishing a nuclear free zone struck me as an urgent and actionable way to intercept the national dialog.
Gareth Porter | Posted 10.15.2007 | Politics
Clinton's failure to utter the slightest protest in the face of a real threat of war must be taken as prima facie evidence that Clinton has no fundamental disagreement with war against Iran.
Taylor Marsh | Posted 10.11.2007 | Politics
I truly do want Obama to challenge Clinton and take it to her. I want to see him fight. But it seems a bit spineless to attack someone for a vote he skipped out on.
Taylor Marsh | Posted 10.01.2007 | Politics
In March, Webb introduced legislation demanding that the president seek congressional approval before striking Iran. Senator Clinton will co-sponsor legislation with Webb and re-introduce it into the Senate.
Philip Giraldi | Posted 10.01.2007 | Politics
The politicians and media in the United States are creating the conditions that will inevitably lead to a major new war in the Middle East.
David Mizner | Posted 09.27.2007 | Politics
She's confident that progressives are too impotent, divided, and disorganized to deny her the nomination. How else to explain her vote for the Lieberman-Kyl Amendment?
David Bromwich | Posted 09.27.2007 | Politics
Yesterday she voted to bring the country a serious step closer to war against Iran. And she did so for the same reason that she voted to authorize the war on Iraq.
Azadeh Ensha | Posted 09.27.2007 | Politics
've never expected much from Lieberman, but this latest display of missing-backbone on behalf of the Democrats lowers my expectations of his former party.
Gareth Porter | Posted 09.26.2007 | Politics
The Lieberman-Kyle amendment just passed the Senate after two sections were removed to satisfy Dems that it will not serve as a backdoor authorization for war against Iran.
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Tom Andrews | Posted 12.05.2007 | Politics