Larry Haas – Page 43

The Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States and bomb Saudi and Israeli embassies in Washington and elsewhere was not some bizarre move by a rogue operator within Iran’s government. It was, instead, the logical next step in Iran’s increasingly lethal war against the United States – a step demanding that …

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The stakes are far too high for America to sit on the sidelines

September 8, 2011

Sacramento Bee

The Arab Spring has brought hope to millions across the Middle East and North Africa, but whether its ultimate outcome is a more democratic region or just a new set of autocrats to replace the old remains a very open question. For the United States, the stakes could hardly be higher. A more democratic region …

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Of deficits and dreams

September 1, 2011

The American Square

As the new congressional joint committee prepares to look this fall for $1.5 trillion in budget savings as a down payment on our long-term fiscal problem, you’ll be reading all kinds of economic arguments why this work is so important – mainly, that it will reduce the chances of an economic crisis by reassuring our …

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Military force must be considered

August 12, 2011

Sacramento Bee

Make no mistake: U.N. Security Council sanctions and additional U.S. and European pressures are hurting Iran. Tehran is having a harder time importing food and other key goods, its foreign investment is drying up, financial firms and shipping companies are turning down its business, and its central bank is running short of hard currency. What …

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Why Progressives Are Losing

July 28, 2011

The Fiscal Times

Progressives are not just distraught but befuddled. They ask, as Vice President Joe Biden’s former top economic advisor Jared Bernstein did on his blog, why are they losing the economic and fiscal fight. And why, in particular, are the two parties rushing to attach enormous spending cuts to debt limit legislation while paying little attention …

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The Fiscal Debate Is Over, But Who Pays?

July 25, 2011

The Fiscal Times

Conventional wisdom suggests that, in the debt limit negotiations, the two parties are engaged in a titanic debate over the future direction of fiscal policy. Nonsense. The debate is over, and the Republicans have won. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., made it official this morning when, in the Washington Post’s overview of debt limit …

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Follow the Leader: On Debt Talks, That’s Congress

July 20, 2011

The Fiscal Times

“The President proposes and Congress disposes.” It’s an old adage and usually an accurate one. It also reflects, in the budget debate, a longstanding tenet of conventional wisdom – that the president must lead or nothing significant will occur. It’s a belief that crosses party lines. “I think if you’re the executive, you’ve got to …

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