Category: Foreign Policy
Bibi Back in Washington
by The Washington Spectator | Nov 9, 2015 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsOn November 9, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu returns to Washington, this time to the White House at the invitation of Barack Obama. Netanyahu’s previous trip, in early March of this year, was a foreign policy coup for Speaker of the House John Boehner, who invited Netanyahu to address Congress without consulting the White House––and an […]
James Woods’s “Bengahzi” Spectacular
by Hannah Gais | Oct 23, 2015 | Blog, Foreign Policy, PoliticsConservative media may have taken yesterday’s utterly pointless Benghazi hearing and turned it into a nonsensical firestorm, but it was social media that turned it into an ode to stupidity. The spectacle was particularly apparent on Twitter. Last night, on the right side of Twitter’s homepage in its “trending topics” section for Washington, D.C., was the […]
Back to the Dark Side: Dick Cheney’s Pax Americana
by Ambassador Joe Wilson (ret.) and Valerie Plame | Oct 22, 2015 | Books, Foreign Policy, PoliticsExceptional, the new book from former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter, Liz, is not. It is nothing more than an unhinged rant that smacks of sedition. “The children need to know the truth about who we are, what we’ve done, and why it is uniquely America’s duty to be freedom’s defender,” the […]
The Tortured History of Guantánamo
by Bonnie Tamres-Moore | Oct 13, 2015 | Foreign Policy, Legal Affairs, PoliticsPhoto: Joint Task Force Guantanamo In January 2002, the United States began sending prisoners to Guantánamo Bay. That same month, President Bush said that prisoners from the war in Afghanistan would not be afforded all protections of the Geneva Conventions. They would be treated “humanely,” he said, in the “spirit” of the Geneva Conventions. “We’re adhering to […]
Dismissing Netanyahu, Obama Bets His Legacy on Diplomacy
by Helena Cobban | Sep 10, 2015 | Foreign PolicyWill Benjamin Netanyahu go down in history as the Israeli prime minister who cried wolf once too often regarding Iran’s nuclear-technology program? It looks that way. Back in the mid-1980s, when I started studying and writing about nuclear proliferation issues in the Middle East, the anxious estimates of most Israeli and pro-Israeli “experts” concluded […]