Category: Foreign Policy
The U.S. Can’t Bring Peace to Iraq, But Muslim Nations Can
by Dilip Hiro | Jan 1, 2007 | Foreign PolicyThe good news is that the report by the Iraq Study Group (ISG), entitled “The Way Forward: A New Approach,” has unleashed a public debate in the United States. Three out of four Americans responding to the latest USA Today/Gallup poll support its key policy recommendations. The bad news is that the bipartisan ISG, co-chaired by James Baker, […]
Do-Nothing Foreign Policy | Election Ammunition | Republican Airwaves
by WS Editors | Aug 1, 2006 | Foreign Policy, MediaWanted: A Foreign Policy—Since the Bush administration decided to abandon its doctrine of pre-emptive military force in the wreckage and rubble of Iraq, conservative hawks have begun labeling President Bush “weak,” “soft,” and “Clintonian.” The cover of Time heralded “the end of cowboy diplomacy.” The establishment journal Foreign Affairs echoed this with “The End of the Bush Revolution.” All […]
America’s Curious Hatred of the United Nations
by WS Editors | Jul 15, 2006 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsIn Max Frisch’s play The Fire Raisers, the respectable Herr Biedermann prefers to accept the palpably thin excuses that his tenants offer as they haul wagonloads of incendiary materials into his house, because that is easier than taking any action. Something like that is happening now. While the congressional and media types who magnify molehills of […]
An Ancient Group’s Struggle Provides Clues To the Future of the Middle East
by Kevin McKiernan | Jul 1, 2006 | Foreign PolicyEditor’s note: A new book, The Kurds: A People in Search of Their Homeland, by Kevin McKiernan, recently caught our eye. It’s at once a history of the largest ethnic group in the world without their own state and a contemporary account of the Kurdish role in the war in Iraq. As the book makes clear, […]
Stalling on Haditha | Lieberman’s Lonely Road | Our Endangered National Parks
by WS Editors | Jul 1, 2006 | Environment, Foreign PolicyHandling Haditha—The killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi bumped news of Haditha off the front page, blunting public impact of the incident, in which U.S. troops stand accused of killing 24 Iraqi civilians and then covering it up. On the day of Zarqawi’s death, the State Department’s coordinator for Iraq said, “Haditha is a serious issue […]
Bad Faith Documentary
Bad Faith
“A great and powerful and timely film” – Ken Burns
Critics are raving about BAD FAITH, the sensational expose of Christian Nationalism from directors Stephen Ujlaki and Chris Jones
“One of the Ten Best Films of 2024” – Variety