23 April 2016 Poor President Barack Obama flew to Saudi Arabia this past week but its ruler, King Salman, was too busy to greet him at Riyadh’s airport. This snub was seen across the Arab world as a huge insult and violation of traditional desert hospitality. Obama should have refused […]


6 February 2016 One night in his tent in Tripoli, Libya, Col. Muammar Khadafi told me, “the Saudis are a very rich family hiding behind high walls, terrified their neighbors will come and steal their wealth.” He was right. The covetous neighbor most feared by the Saudis are Iran, followed […]


April 11, 2015    The deal reached in Lausanne, Switzerland by Iran and five powers, led by the US, appears to be about nuclear capability.   In fact, the real issue was not nuclear weapons, which Iran does not now possess, but Iran’s potential geopolitical power.   Iran, a nation of 80.8 […]