Dobbs for President? Dobbs for President?
Parsing the Lou Dobbs bombshell, I can't help wondering if the pudgy populist is planning a run for president in 2012. My guess: yes. And if he does, I'll bet he'll do so as a Per...
Nov 12, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Abbas’ Shock Treatment Abbas’ Shock Treatment
The crisis in US diplomacy with Israel and Palestine was the subject of an important discuss yesterday at the annual conference of the Middle East Institute. And the mood was deci...
Nov 11, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
The Deal with Iran The Deal with Iran
President Obama's meeting today with Israel's prime minister, Bibi Netanyahu, won't be focused exclusively on Israel's stubborn refusal to move forward on a deal with the Palestin...
Nov 9, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Obama Fails in Middle East Obama Fails in Middle East
The announcement by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that he will not run for reelection is the exclamation point on the utter collapse of the Obama adminstration's Middle East...
Nov 6, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Patience with Iran Patience with Iran
The Green Movement opposition flexed its muscles again in Iran this week, taking advantage of anti-American protests on the anniversary of the 1979 seizure of the US embassy in Te...
Nov 5, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Looking Past Karzai Looking Past Karzai
Is the White House thinking about getting out of Afghanistan? Just as Hamlet's mother and his murderous uncle rushed to marry with unseemly haste, even before his slain father's ...
Nov 4, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Iran Split on Nukes Iran Split on Nukes
One thing I heard over and over again during my visit to Tehran in June was that the two sides in Iran's political divide were intent on sabotaging any US-Iran deal concluded by t...
Oct 30, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
J Street, Obama, and Israel J Street, Obama, and Israel
I spent yesterday afternoon at the J Street conference, the meeting of the "pro-Israel, pro-peace" lobbying group that was founded last year. (A piece that I'd written on J Street ...
Oct 28, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
The Iraqi Time Bomb The Iraqi Time Bomb
More and more, it seems that the Obama administration has utterly forgotten about Iraq. With its laser-like focus on Afghanistan and its diplomacy with Iran, it's rare that Iraq g...
Oct 27, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Obama’s Afghan Compromise? Obama’s Afghan Compromise?
With 14 more dead Americans today, in three helicopter crashes, it's beginning to look like President Obama will, after all, opt for a significant escalation of the war -- at leas...
Oct 26, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss