Are Hillary Clinton’s presidential ambitions clouding her morals?
Whether or not Clinton has formally announced her candidacy, her silence on Iran speaks louder than words. Asked in an interview this week about her presidential ambitions, Hillary Clinton gave an answer that qualified as a howler even by Clinton standards: “I’m not thinking about it.” Clinton is widely considered the presumptive Democratic nominee for […]
Kinzer in Al Jazeera America: US-Iran detente will be biggest geopolitical story of 2014
Predicting which geopolitical events and trends will shape the coming year is a pastime as speculative as it is irresistible.
There is plenty to anticipate: China and Japan may become more aggressive and provocative over the disputed Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands, contributing to instability in East Asia. Radical fundamentalists will wage war from new bases in Mali, Libya and Syria. Turkey may become more polarized and fail to recover the promising role it played in regional politics until a couple of years ago. Nationalist and far-right political parties will gain strength in Europe. President Barack Obama’s decision to approve or reject the massive Keystone oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico will profoundly affect global energy markets. If King Saud dies — he will turn 90 this year — Saudi Arabia will be racked by an intense struggle over succession and the direction of the kingdom.
Invading Iraq was dumb enough. Now Congress wants to derail the Iran deal
No step the United States could take anywhere in the world would bring strategic benefits as great as detente with Iran The diplomatic bargain struck by the United States and Iran this week is the Obama administration’s greatest diplomatic triumph. Efforts by the US Congress to derail it would, if successful, constitute a self-inflicted strategic […]
