Category: Foreign Policy
The Afghan Dilemma | Blaming Obama/Intelligence as an Option | Five Years and Five Billion
by WS Editors | Nov 15, 2009 | Foreign Policy, National SecurityThe Afghan Dilemma—House Armed Services Committee Chair Ike Skelton (D-MO) describes President Barack Obama’s Afghanistan strategy as “not new” but the “first strategy” in a war that has been under-resourced and “forgotten” since the Bush administration initiated it in 2001. The Afghanistan assessment that General Stanley McChrystal presented to the president reportedly calls for an […]
Prelude to an Obama Peace Plan
by Ian Williams | Sep 1, 2009 | Foreign Policy“I hope that in the coming months we will see negotiations launched on all fronts as result of a regional peace initiative by President Obama, with the Palestinian issue at its core…. In my opinion, Israel should enthusiastically join the initiative.” —Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, August 3, 2009 LONG-TIME OBSERVERS OF THE MIDDLE EAST […]
In the Wrong Place for a Long Time
by Murat Kurnaz | Jun 1, 2009 | Foreign PolicyTorture at Guantánamo? “On a couple of occassions [sic], I entered interview rooms to find a detainee chained hand and foot in a fetal position to the floor, with no chair, food, or water. Most times they had urinated or defacated [sic] on themselves, and had been left there for 18-24 hours or more. On […]
Bomb Iran? | Cram-Down Crammed Down
by WS Editors | May 15, 2009 | Economy, Foreign PolicyBomb Iran?—Swine flu kept the story off the front pages of American newspapers, but the Israeli press is engaged in a robust public debate over the prospect of an Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. That line of discussion continues in the Israeli press. “As far as Netanyahu is concerned, a decisive […]
Enough Pentagon Spending? | Of Mice and Men | Texas Hold ’em | He’s Back
by WS Editors | Mar 1, 2009 | Economy, Foreign PolicyEnough Pentagon Spending?—A perpetually growing defense budget is an institutional imperative at the Pentagon. Yet lost in House Armed Services Committee testimony on Afghanistan was a rare bit of news. Defense Secretary Gates has discretionary funds that can be used for additional troops in Afghanistan—even if the defense budget is cut. This from General Jack […]
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