Another Bush Legacy “In allowing the Israelis and Palestinians to have it out on the ground, and not giving them a diplomatic alternative, thousands of Israelis and Palestinians have lost their lives. And the whole edifice of a peace process that began with Henry Kissinger was destroyed.” —Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk WHEN […]

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The 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 […]

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Shocking! “With regard to the health care issue, as we all know, the bill that was reported yesterday will not be the bill voted on. Right down here in the Majority Leader’s conference room they’ll be writing the real bill that will be brought up.”  —Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, October 14, 2009 ? “THE […]

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MANY DETRACTORS of Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize are cagey about the real reasons for their opposition, because they have spent years opposing the biggest issue for which the Norwegians made the award: nuclear disarmament. For decades, diehard Cold Warriors in the Pentagon, the Senate, and often the White House made it clear to the […]

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Last Word on Last Rights—When the Obama administration allowed extremists to seize control of the health-care-reform narrative during the summer, the debate over government funding for end-of-life legal processes was hijacked by right wingers and evangelicals. Senator John D. Rockefeller IV now argues that the issue is too important to be left to the “screamers.” […]

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