The one thing that could turn the world away from threat of Muslim extremism was, sadly, a fight for the heart and soul of Islam. When this happens (as it did in Iraq in Anbar Province, as it did in Afghanistan with the defeat of Taliban rule, as it is happening in the Tribal Areas […]

Michael Totten is doing the reporting that should have been done by a dozen world-renowned news organizations. Everything he has posted is important to know and understand about the chaos gripping Iran. The following tape illustrates what could be a tipping point for the mad Mullahs of Iran. The police are running from the protestors in […]

This is an interesting turn of events in Iran: Mir Hossein Mousavi’s, the main reformist rival to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, letter to the important ayatollahs in the holy city of Qom, asking them to protest the fraud and declare it against Islam, has sparked protests by the ayatollahs and clerics as well. The Association of […]

Major Update: A letter from the probable winner, Mousavi, on the false election. Update: Marc Ambinder has a list of good Twitter links to monitor Iran. Update: I never agree with Juan Cole, but today things in Iran are so obviously bad and boiling over it seems only the news media (left and right) don’t […]

Everyone is waiting on the election results for Iran’s President today. The race is between the current hardline nut job and a surging moderate. The vote is seen as a referendum on the extremist Ahmedinejad and his confrontational positions with the rest of the world.  Some reports have the hard liner losing, and losing big […]

Two bits of news came out recently regarding Obama and the Middle East challenges which have the conservatives suffering from Obama Derangement Syndrome in full self destruct mode. The first was Obama’s statement that Iran should be allowed access to nuclear energy for peaceful purposes: President Barack Obama suggested that Iran may have some right to nuclear […]

And so we finally come to it. President Obama is facing severe national security tests this Memorial Day Weekend. First is a nuclear armed North Korea: There have been expressions of international outrage after North Korea said it had successfully carried out an underground nuclear test. After seismologists confirmed it had the power of a […]

Update: Even WaPo determines Obama’s decision to win Afghanistan is a gutsy continuation of the Bush policies. – end update President Obama has demonstrated two things in his first few months. First (and worst), he has demonstrated how truly inexperienced and unprepared he and his team truly were. But second (and most unexpected), President Obama […]

Someone in the US Intelligence Community (at times an oxymoron, to be sure) has decided to blow covert efforts by Israel – our supposed ally - by exposing them in the news media: Israel has launched a covert war against Iran as an alternative to direct military strikes against Tehran’s nuclear programme, US intelligence sources have […]

  President Obama’s neophyte view of the world just got the expected slap in the face from the violent radicals of Iran: US President Barack Obama’s offer to talk to Iran shows that America’s policy of “domination” has failed, the government spokesman said on Saturday.”This request means Western ideology has become passive, that capitalist thought and the […]