New York Times: “The French, who are so gloomy and pessimistic about the situation in the country and the economy, have at least one reason to be proud of what their country can achieve,” Jean-David Levitte, the diplomatic adviser to former President Nicolas Sarkozy...
Worth remembering on MLK day is his vehement opposition to the ruthless American terrorism in Indochina. He called it "the destruction of Vietnam." Hear and read his famous speech, delivered on April 4, 1967 at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside...
Interviewed by Neil Cavuto on Fox News:
Marc Lynch at Foreign Policy responds to the criticism that earlier US intervention in Syria would have prevented the hopeless bloodbath there: Advocates of intervention frequently complain that the United States could have prevented this fiasco through earlier, more...
A year ago, the video of US Marines urinating on Afghan corpses surfaced on the internet and shocked most viewers. This week, in the trial proceedings for the Marines' court-martial, it was revealed that the viral video was one of 12 such videos investigators found...
Today is the 52nd anniversary of what is perhaps the most important and prophetic farewell address of any US president. Eisenhower's warning of the unwarranted influence of the military-industrial complex in the councils of government was sound advice, although sadly...
Conn Hallinan has an important piece at Foreign Policy in Focus called Militarizing Latin America: Four More Years. Excerpt: As it has in Africa and Asia, the Obama administration has militarized its foreign policy vis-à-vis Latin America. Washington has spread a...
One of the central demands of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, in order for him to keep playing ball with the US, was to gain full control over all Afghan prisons after US forces drawdown in 2014. The Obama administration reluctantly agreed to this demand and has been...
I see my colleague John Glaser has taken to the hustings to once again express his skepticism of All Things Hagel. He's convinced that our boy Chuck has "flipped and flopped like a fish out of water" in response to the Other Chuck's (Chuck Schumer, that is)...
Much was supposedly riding on Chuck Schumer's (D-NY) decision about whether to support Obama's nomination for Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel. Schumer is a big supporter of Israel and a shameless foreign policy hawk, and Hagel's past positions - like, being willing...
