Category: Foreign Policy
Republican Primaries Focus on Immigration | What’s Really Going on in Pakistan
by WS Editors | Jan 15, 2008 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsYear of the Immigrant—On the final weekend of the year both the New York Times and National Public Radio focused on the illegal immigrant as the bête noire of Republican presidential-primary politics. On the same weekend the Dallas Morning News declared “The Illegal Immigrant” its person of the year. The award has a considerable shelf life; it’s already evident that the […]
United Nations Opponents All at Sea Over Convention
by WS Editors | Nov 1, 2007 | Foreign PolicyEditor’s note: On October 4 Fred Smith of the Competitive Enterprise Institute addressed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Smith drew on all the anathemas of the far right to attack a treaty the committee was considering. “Did anyone expect the Endangered Species Act to become a national land use planning act? Did anyone expect Superfund […]
On Children’s Health Care and Iraq War Funding
by WS Editors | Oct 15, 2007 | Foreign Policy, Politics“I HAVE STRONGLY SUPPORTED THE S-CHIP as a governor, and I have done so as president,” said President Bush at the beginning of a hastily called press conference on September 20. He was lying. Most elected officials lie. Two books have documented the president’s programmatic deceit. Yet the lie President Bush told about his position […]
One Trillion Dollars? | Congress Kicks Back on War Funding | Hillary’s Iran Flip-Flop
by WS Editors | Oct 15, 2007 | Foreign PolicyThe $50 Billion War—By 2004, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s 2003 prediction that the Iraq War would cost $50 billion was recognized as wildly off the mark, even if Rumsfeld didn’t realize it. Rumsfeld is no longer handicapping war costs, but Steven M. Kosiak at the non-profit Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments is. Kosiak pulled […]
When Anti-Terror Justice Runs Amok
by WS Editors | Oct 1, 2007 | Foreign Policy, National SecurityON AUGUST 15, PETE SEDA CAME HOME. He had written to the U.S. Attorney in Eugene, Oregon, advising him that he would arrive in Portland at 11:25 a.m. on Lufthansa Flight 425. I was waiting for Seda in the international lobby at the airport, as was Associate Press reporter William McCall. There was also a […]
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