If you were looking for a monument to supreme egotism, you would have to go far to beat Obama’s statement in this interview with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg: “Look, 20 years from now, I’m still going to be around, God … Continue reading →
Emma Sky has written a book entitled The Unraveling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq. A review can be found here, and it sounds fascinating, although I haven’t read it. A British Oxford-educated progressive with extensive experience in the … Continue reading →
When you blog you write an awful lot, day after day after day. That means that you forget some of what you wrote—perhaps not “forget” exactly, but it slips your mind and it’s only on looking at it again that … Continue reading →
Now it’s liberals’ turn to feel the sting of Obama’s sharp tongue. They seemed to have had no problem with his previous personal attacks on Republicans for disagreeing with him, or with secrecy on the contents of previous bills. And … Continue reading →
My question is quite simple: who’s the bigger liar, Seymour Hersh or President Obama? A lot of attention is being paid to Hersh’s piece in the London Review of Books that claims that “a single source says Obama lied about … Continue reading →
The following came up recently, and I thought it important enough to merit its very own post. Remember this moment back in March of 2012?: Mr Medvedev, who steps down in May, said he would pass on Mr Obama’s message … Continue reading →
Referring to the horrific act of “15 Muslim asylum-seekers [who] reportedly threw 12 Christian asylum-seekers overboard as they made their way from Libya to Sicily this week,” Kirsten Powers writes: As [Italian PM] Renzi was questioned about the incident, Obama … Continue reading →
I’m not sure whether the question is rhetorical or not: The Obama administration apparently believes that only after a nuclear agreement is signed can the free world expect Iran to stop its attempts at regional domination, improve its human rights … Continue reading →
…are of no interest to the press.
Continue reading →…and the Obama administration says it doesn’t matter much: …Ramadi’s looming collapse has long been predictable. After all, it’s not exactly a secret that ISIS wants to control the arterial roads that connect central Syria with central Iraq (if you … Continue reading →
Word is that a deal is in the making: Senators on the Foreign Relations Committee said they had a deal Tuesday that could lead to a bipartisan vote in favor of giving Congress a vote to approve or disapprove a … Continue reading →
And Brian Beutler has a dream, which he unveils at TNR: The challenge, then, is to make sure Clinton’s age and ethnicity don’t discourage Obama’s youthful, diverse supporters from turning out in November 2016. Fortunately, there’s an easy way to … Continue reading →