THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE By Tom Ridge and Howard Dean Although one is tempted to put the disastrous rule of former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in the rearview mirror, we must study it and learn from his mistakes if Iraq’s new leadership — with no small measure of U.S. assistance — is to arrest the…
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To stop Iran gaining nukes, stop rewarding it for lying
NEWSWEEK By General Hugh Shelton, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff In a perfect world, a repeated pattern of deceit and moral failure has consequences. Indeed, when trust and credibility are eroded, we dump the shady contractor, we vote out the lying politician, we fire the skimming employee. So how is it we…
Iran collides with international community in Mideast conflicts
ROLL CALL By Tom Ridge and Patrick Kennedy Recent reports about Saudi troops amassing to secure that country’s border with Iraq underscores the multinational dimensions of the conflicts raging inside both Iraq and Syria. Civil wars that might have initially only threatened the two dictators are now endangering the entire region and global security. The…
Alan Dershowitz: US must protect Camp Liberty from ‘genocidal’ Iranian regime
America must keep its promise to protect Iranian dissents in Camp Liberty that are the target of ‘genocidal plans’ by the religious dictatorship in Tehran, a leading US lawyer has demanded. Alan Dershowitz, prominent lawyer in criminal law also branded Iran the world’s worst human rights offender, the world’s worst state sponsor of terrorism, the…
Iran resistance fighters need asylum in US, Lieberman says
FoxNEWS.com Former U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman on Tuesday called for Iran resistance fighters to be brought to the United States to protect them from a possible massacre at the hands of Iraqi government forces. Nearly 3,000 members of the National Council of Resistance to Iran are stationed at Camp Liberty, a former U.S. base in…