All is Not Well: Don’t Go Back to Sleep

01.12.2020 ________________________________________ “There is more going on … than the clumsy interventions of the west in Iraq and Afghanistan and Continue reading →

Trump vs. Iran: ‘Cocked and Loaded’

06.23.2019 ________________________________________ On January 12, 2016, two US Navy riverine command boats were seized by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Continue reading →

Trump: Bad For The World, Bad For Us

09.30.2018 ________________________________________  Donald Trump was elected, he believes, to end “this American carnage,” “drain the swamp,” and “build a wall.” Continue reading →

Regime Change: Be Careful What You Wish For

05.13.2018 ________________________________________  American policy, John Bolton wrote in the Wall Street Journal in January, “should be ending Iran’s 1979 Islamic Continue reading →

Trump and North Korea: Remember Hudaybiyah

03.11.2018 ________________________________________ “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, Continue reading →

Indeed, ‘The World is Watching! #IranProtests’

01.07.2018 ________________________________________  As we ease ourselves into 2018 let us resolve to contextualize, to learn and remember:  That on April Continue reading →

President Trump, Not Iran, Is The Existential Threat

10.15.2017 _________________________________________ “The Last American,” an 1889 dystopian novel, is based on a fictional journal of a Persian admiral who Continue reading →

Who’s leading whom: Pyongyang. Tehran. Paris.

04.23.2017 ________________________________________   From Pyongyang to Paris foreign affairs dominated the stage this week – and not much of the Continue reading →