T. F. Kelley | February 9, 2010
We are again on a sure path to war and no one can stop it. The administration’s willingness and ability to attack Iran is independent of public opinion or congressional authorization. They have all the permission they need, the attack is simply an extension of the war in Iraq. A battle plan is in place [...]
T. F. Kelley | October 1, 2009
A first brief meeting (September 30) between our diplomat William Burns and the Iranian official Saeed Jalili in Geneva marks a good time to review the troubled relationship between our two countries. With Iran, once valued as an ally and best friend we have gone from meddling to shunning, from friendship to hostility. Why, what [...]
T. F. Kelley | May 28, 2007
A recent report from a leading British international affairs think tank (Chatham House) described the situation in Iraq as “unremittingly bleak.” They noted it was not one civil war but several and that the Iraqi government had become powerless and irrelevant in many parts of the country. Now in year five of this dismal tragedy [...]
T. F. Kelley | March 10, 2006
Iran: déjà vu all over again? Wherever we went in the Middle East we left footprints and some of those were missteps that produced drastic and undesired political changes. The Pahlavi dynasty ruled Iran, once called Persia, since 1925 with a major interruption in 1951 when Mohammad Mossadegh an ultra nationalist was elected Prime Minister [...]
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