The Iranian Souffle The Iranian Souffle
Last June, when I was in Iran to cover the presidential election for The Nation, I happened to run into a middle-aged Iranian war veteran on the street. I was on my way to Preside...
Dec 11, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Iran: No Sanctions! Iran: No Sanctions!
Back in the spring, and several times since then, President Obama suggested that if progress hasn't been made in the talks with Iran, he'd move toward harsher measures, including ...
Dec 9, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Exit: 2011, Part II Exit: 2011, Part II
Both the New York Times and the Washington Post carried feature-length, page one articles yesterday analyzing the inside debate over President Obama's Afghanistan policy. The Time...
Dec 7, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Fire Gates! Fire Gates!
It's time to fire Robert Gates. True, it was Obama who made the decision to escalate the war. And by all accounts, the president was comfortable with the decision he made, having...
Dec 4, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Exit: 2011? Exit: 2011?
Is he lying to us? When President Obama talks about withdrawing US forces from Afghanistan in July, 2011, does he mean it? Or is that a clever ruse in order to blunt criticism fro...
Dec 2, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Feint to Exit? Feint to Exit?
What's tragic about President Obama's decision to dispatch tens of thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan is that even the president knows, I am sure, that escalation won't...
Nov 30, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
A Kingdom of Bicycles No Longer A Kingdom of Bicycles No Longer
BEIJING -- Ambassador Yu Qingtai is China's point man on global warming. As special representative to the climate change talks for China's ministry of foreign affairs, Yu is a for...
Nov 24, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Can China Help on Afghanistan? Can China Help on Afghanistan?
BEIJING--During President Obama's recent visit to China, he got some advice on Afghanistan from Chinese government officials – and an offer of Chinese assistance toward a negoti...
Nov 23, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Chongqing: Socialism in One City Chongqing: Socialism in One City
I'm writing today from Chongqing, a vast city in central China that is China's gateway to its western regions. By some accounts, Chongqing is the largest city in the world, a munc...
Nov 18, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
The View from China The View from China
When Yiang Jiemian, president of the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies, gets together with his brother, Yang Jiechi, China's minister of foreign affairs, they don't ta...
Nov 17, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss