Huffington Post - Any doubt we might have that the Israeli right has lost its mind should be eliminated by the latest column from one of its most prominent media figures, Caroline Glick of the Jerusalem Post.

CounterPunch, Ray Mcgovern: “Can He Tell the Truth?” Petraeus at CIA – ……Petraeus also deeply values his relationship with prominent neoconservatives who have received extraordinary access to war zones – personally arranged by the general – in exchange for their service to him as his cheering section in influential Washi...

One of the enduring mysteries is why neoconservative foreign policy continues to dominate the Republican Party and also large parts of the Democratic Party even though that policy has been disastrous for the United States.  No one – not even Secretary of Defense Robert Gates – is willing to call the two land wars currently underway in Asia successful and the hemorrhage of more than $12 billion a month to support the conflicts does nothing…

Is there some difference in understanding and perspective between President George W Bush and the members of his administration who are the dominant influences over foreign policy? Is the President, possibly because he is generally neither well read or well informed, a relative weak influence in his own administration and is dominated by such highly intelligent and forceful members of the Pentagon such as, Wolfowitz, Perle, Feith, and others and by the Vice President? There is some evidence for this and…