War With Iran

With the Bush administration in popularity freefall, its splendid little war in Iraq having run aground, many Americans have been eying its hollow belligerence toward Iran with acute nervousness.

Without hard-hitting sanctions, military action against Iran is inevitable. Dealing with the vice of Iran now is unpleasant, but dealing with a nuclear Iran will be a thousand times worse.

Iran's oft-stated nuclear ambitions remain the single greatest threat to world peace. But instead of recognizing the Iranian threat for what it is, Europeans continue to focus on blaming themselves for past colonial failures.

Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker reporter Seymour Hersh recently told Think Progress that a recent meeting in Vice President Cheney's office on the t...

McCain will opt for war as the first choice, not the last choice. With America now embroiled in two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, one has to worry about John McCain's desire to "bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran."

In the past two months, the anti-war movement has taken on one of the most powerful lobbying groups in the United States in an important fight. And so far, it's winning.

Whereas the implications of a war with Iran for the national security of the US would be much worse than those of the Iraq war, little has been said about the implications for our economic security here at home.

Condi needs to either convince the president what a catastrophe attacking Iran would be. Or, failing that, break with the administration and do the noble thing by resigning while it still might make a difference.

Congressional Democrats are sponsoring Resolution 362, which amounts to an act of war against Iran. The good news is that growing outcry from Americans is causing some to have second thoughts.

When you say "Israel Lobby," people tend to think "AIPAC." Many people don't realize that a key component of the "Israel Lobby" consists of people who call themselves Christian.

This country urgently needs more members of Congress like Barney Frank, who are willing to state forthrightly that they made a mistake.

I am not willing to leave even the "slightest crack" open for this president to unilaterally set this nation down another disastrous path of war in Iran.

This latest round of scandal comes just as a coalition of progress activists has delivered a 43,000-plus signature petition calling to strip Lieberman of his chairmanship and rank in the caucus.

What those promoting military attacks on Iran don't want Americans to know is that there's an offer on the table that could resolve the dispute over Iran's nuclear program and allow both sides to claim victory.

Since it doesn't look like Washington has any intention of swearing off its bombing addiction anytime soon, in the spirit of '76, I offer the following quiz for the edification of the general public.

A military attack on Iran would not only lead to Iran opting out of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, it would kill the Iranian pro-democracy movement.

For the love of cheap gas, shut up, already. Let's stop with this nonsense about us or the Israelis launching a preemptive strike against Iran.

"The process is broken," one of Seymour Hersh's informants told him, "and this is dangerous stuff we're authorizing." Yet the Democrats may think that what they don't know can't hurt them at the polls.

For the past eight years we have pursued an incoherent approach that fails to focus clearly on U.S. interests and does not effectively use all of the tools of power available.

Until recently, the power struggle within the Bush administration over whether to attack Iran seemed to be going badly for the hawks. Their disastrous...

Conditions that Iran cease its uranium enrichment, as well as America's overt talk of bombing, only paint the Islamic Republic into a corner from which it can hardly get out, given its structure.

The US will do everything in its power to prevent an attack by Iran or to respond militarily should an attack take place. In dealing with the likes of Ahmadinejad, there is nothing wrong with being vocal about that fact.

The key to tempering the Israeli-Iranian rivalry -- at least the Iranian side of it -- lies in playing Iran's ideological and strategic interests against each other.