westernfrontamerica.com - 12/1/2008
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U.S. policy since the days of Franklin Delano Roosevelt has been support for Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States, providing protection of the sea lanes that transport oil and, in the case of Iraq, protecting the Saudi kingdom against attack.
The Future of the Middle East
counterterrorismblog.org 11/19/2008 — Yesterday afternoon, the Washington Institute hosted Dr. Tom Fingar, the Chairman of the National Intelligence Council, as part of a speaker series we've been running with senior US government counterterrorism officials. Dr. Fingar gave a preview of the soon to be released report, "Global ...
Middle East Solutions
middleeastsolutions.org 12/14/2008 — This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them.
Do we need the middle class?
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com 12/18/2008 — Kevin Drum writes that
One way or another, there's really no way for the economy to grow strongly and consistently unless middle-class consumers spend more, and they can't spend more unless they make more.
This is a widely held view, and I'm as much ...
Middle East Action Items for the Obama Administration
outsidethebeltway.com 12/26/2008 — In an op-ed in the Washington Post this morning, former ambassador from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the United States Turk al-Faisal proposed an approach to achieving peace in the Middle East with five action items for the incoming Obama ...
Obama's Middle East Advisers
swampland.blogs.time.com 1/12/2009 — Roger Cohen makes a very good point in his New York Times column today. There are no Arabs or Persians on Barack Obama's Middle East negotiating team--at least not yet. And most of those who have been named or rumored are Jewish males.
I suppose ...
Rethinking The Clinton Transition
politics.theatlantic.com 2/16/2009 — Remember how bad that Clinton transition was? All the nominee juggling. The stronger-than-expected prerogatives of Congress? Early White House chaos? Communications problems? The point is: transitions are very hard. Maybe it's not fair to ...
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Major reshuffle in Saudi Arabia
news.bbc.co.uk 2/14/2009 — King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has sacked two powerful religious officials in a wide ranging shake-up of the cabinet and other government posts. One of the dismissed men was the head of the controversial religious police force. The other was the ...
Sign of the (coming) Middle East
lynch.foreignpolicy.com 2/11/2009 — Signs of the coming new Middle East : The top story in today's online version of the leading pan-Arab Saudi-owned daily al-Hayat ? The visit to Saudi Arabia by China's President Hu Jintao , who promises to improve Saudi-Chinese cooperation, and ...
DEBATE FACT #14: WHAT BARACK OBAMA MIDDLE EAST POLICY?
johnmccain.com 10/22/2008 — Summary:.
Barack Obama does not have a Middle East policy.
The Facts About Barack Obama's Record:
Barack Obama Has Not Been Forthcoming With His Own Plan For The Middle East. "[Obama] also avoided the land mine of Jerusalem, ...
Hill to meet N.Koreans in Singapore this week —
Reuters: Politics 12/1/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Chris Hill will meet North Korean officials in Singapore ahead of December 8 multilateral talks in Beijing on persuading North Korea to abandon its nuclear programs, a U.S. official said on ...
Bush calls flawed Iraq intelligence biggest regret —
Reuters: Politics 12/1/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush said the biggest regret of his presidency was flawed intelligence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and told ABC "World News" in an interview airing on Monday that he was unprepared for war when ...
Commentary: How U.S. should respond to attacks —
CNN.com - Politics 12/1/2008
A captured suspect in the Mumbai attacks has told police that he is Pakistani, Indian officials say. CNN's sister station, CNN-IBN, reports that the alleged terrorist said he was trained by Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, a Pakistan-based terror group that opposes ...
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