Category: Foreign Policy
Republican Hypocrisy on “Negotiating with Terrorists” | How Bush Bungled Iranian Diplomacy
by WS Editors | Jun 1, 2008 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsReturn of the Contra Band—One day after he was attacked by George W. Bush in a speech before the Knesset in Israel, Barack Obama made the case that there is no daylight between the most unpopular president in modern history and the Republican who is campaigning to succeed him. In less than ten minutes, Obama mentioned John […]
A Missile Defense Boondoggle Fueled by Money
by WS Editors | May 15, 2008 | Foreign Policy, National SecurityONE OF THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS for which George W. Bush does not get enough credit is his role in restarting the Cold War. Using an Iranian intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program as a pretext, the Bush-Cheney White House is putting in place an anti-ballistic-missile system that targets Iranian ICBMs but is ideally positioned to take out […]
Emerging Bipartisan Consensus: The Iraq War is a “Major Debacle”
by WS Editors | May 1, 2008 | Foreign PolicyExeunt Left—How to get out of Iraq? Ten Democratic candidates for the U.S. House have a plan. “A Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq,” by Darcy Burner of Washington, Donna Edwards of Maryland, and eight other candidates can be described as the opposite of John McCain’s Hundred Years’ War plan. It’s also a departure […]
Selling a Military Budget That Will “Make the Rubble Bounce”
by WS Editors | Mar 1, 2008 | Foreign Policy“A billion here and a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money.” —attributed to Everett M. Dirksen, Republican who represented Illinois in the U.S. Senate from 1950 to 1969 A WEEK BEFORE HE SLIPPED ON ICE and broke his arm and a month before the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War, Defense Secretary […]
How Much Longer in Iraq? | The Military’s Lower Standards for Recruits | An EPA Whitewash
by WS Editors | Feb 1, 2008 | Environment, Foreign PolicyRefrigerator Note—At a House Armed Services Committee hearing on January 17, committee chair Ike Skelton (D-MO) told Lt. General James Dubik and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Mark Kimmitt that he wanted “some sense of a timeline” on Iraq. Iraq’s Defense Minister had told Skelton that Iraq’s army would be able to handle internal security […]
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