What We’re Reading Now
Jul 22, 2011

IRAN  
Iran is undetterred
Washington Post- July 21, 2011
There has been no change in Iran’s drive for nuclear weapons or in its aggressive efforts to drive the United States out of the Middle East.

Do we have an Iran policy?
Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post- Jul 19, 2011
The Obama administration is consumed with the debt ceiling debate and with preventing a meltdown in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Meanwhile, the greatest threat to our national security in decades, the potential for a nuclear-armed Islamic revolutionary state in Tehran, still looms.

PAKISTAN
Musharraf says no complicity on bin Laden
AFP- July 21, 2011
Former president Pervez Musharraf insisted Thursday that Pakistan did not provide assistance to Osama bin Laden as he renewed criticism of the US raid that killed the world's most wanted man.

US congressional panel rejects proposal to cut off aid to Pakistan
Telegraph- July 22, 2011
The House Foreign Affairs Committee easily blocked an amendment to a spending bill that would have banned any assistance to Pakistan in the wake of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden near the country's main military academy.