Obama and the Middle East, Part V Obama and the Middle East, Part V
This is the last of a five-part series on Obama's Middle East. Parts I-IV dealt with the war on terrorism, Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Israel-Palestine conflict. The first thing t...
Jan 20, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Obama and the Middle East, Part IV Obama and the Middle East, Part IV
This is the fourth of a five-part series on Barack Obama's Middle East. Part V, on Iran, will appear Monday. Chances are fair to middling that a ceasefire in Gaza, ending Israel'...
Jan 16, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Obama and the Middle East, Part III Obama and the Middle East, Part III
This is the third in a series of posts on Barack Obama's Middle East dilemmas. The topic for Part I was the war on terror, and Part II was Afghanistan. Tomorrow, Part IV will cove...
Jan 15, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Obama and the Middle East, Part II Obama and the Middle East, Part II
This is the second part of a five-part series on Barack Obama's Middle East. Yesterday, Part I covered the so-called War on Terror. Today, in Part II, the subject is Afghanistan a...
Jan 14, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Obama and the Middle East, Part I Obama and the Middle East, Part I
The Middle East looms large for Barack Obama, and in Washington it's clear that the seething arc of crises from Gaza and Lebanon through Iraq and Iran into Afghanistan and Pakista...
Jan 13, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Bush Does A 180 on Gaza Bush Does A 180 on Gaza
It's interesting, and unsettling, to note the near-absence of Democratic Party criticism of the Israeli invasion of Gaza, even as the Bush Administration executes a near-180-degre...
Jan 9, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Panetta? Ummmmm… Well….. Panetta? Ummmmm… Well…..
For an agency whose job it is not to be surprised, nearly everything seems to surprise the CIA these days. So it's not surprising that the agency was surprised by the choice of Le...
Jan 5, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Bush’s Last War Crime? Bush’s Last War Crime?
The Israeli invasion of Gaza, launched Saturday, might very well be George W. Bush's last and final war crime. For eight years, Bush has coupled unparalled ignorance of the Middle...
Jan 4, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Israel Revives Hamas Israel Revives Hamas
As Israel presses its bloody assault on Gaza, dropping broad hints that it is planning a ground attack to complement four days of bombings that have killed hundreds, it's clear th...
Dec 30, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
Obama Fiddles While Gaza Burns Obama Fiddles While Gaza Burns
Thanks to Hamas' stupid, provocative, and self-defeating rocket assault on, well, nothing, in Israel, the Middle East that Barack Obama will inherit from George W. Bush just got a...
Dec 29, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss