Iran has won, jamming Trump’s bombs right up his Strait of Hormuz
How did the mullahs win? Even that flower child Jimmy Carter said the US must use military force to keep open this outlet for the world’s flow of oil. Carter said… READ MORE
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The Baker Boys: Stay Half the Course
Iraq Study Group or Saudi Protection League? They’re kidding, right? James Baker III and the seven dwarfs of the “Iraq Study Group” have come up with some simply brilliant recommendations. Not. Baker’s Two Big Ideas are: 1. Stay half the course. Keeping 140,000 troops in…
Party of God and Reagan: A Hezbollah History Lesson
OK, class, answer this question — and let’s not see the same hands: President George W. Bush says, “Syria has been a primary sponsor of Hezbollah and it has helped provide Hezbollah with shipments of Iranian made weapons…[which] threaten the entire Middle East.” This month…
Blood in Beirut: $75.05 a Barrel
The failure to stop the bloodletting in the Middle East, Exxon’s record second-quarter profits and Iran’s nuclear cat-and-mouse game have something in common — it’s the oil. The Guardian I can’t tell you how it started — this is a war that’s been fought since…