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Stop the Madness

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Foreign Policy - By Rebuttal - Jan. 19 (News Analysis) - This isn't the first time that hawks have raised the alarm about Iran's nuclear program, claiming that the sky is falling. Breathless, hypothetical timelines to an Iranian bomb have continued almost unabated since the time of the shah.

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America's Pacific Century

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Foreign Policy - By Hillary Clinton - Oct. 16 (Opinion) - We cannot and do not aspire to impose our system on other countries, but we do believe that certain values are universal -- that people in every nation in the world, including in Asia, cherish them -- and that they are intrinsic to stable, peaceful, and prosperous countries.

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Who deserves an ICC arrest warrant more than himQaddafi - By David Rothkopf | David Rothkopf

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Foreign Policy - By David Rothkopf - Jun. 28 (Opinion) - "What about George W.T.F. Bush?" he must be asking aloud while daubing shoe polish on his moustache and wondering silently who does Tom Selleck's? "He and Cheney violated every international law on the books, invaded a country, hundreds of thousands of innocent people died, and what do they get? Presidential libraries! Book contracts! State of the art pacemakers!"

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A Day Under Fire with Anton

Mon, 30 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Foreign Policy - By By Xavier Mas De Xaxàs - May. 30 (Editorial) - Two days before Anton Hammerl was killed in Libya, I spent a few, good, honest hours of war and peace in the field with him.

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The bin Laden aftermath: The Internet jihadis react

Mon, 02 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Foreign Policy - By Aaron Y. Zelin - May. 02 (News) - The celebrations in American cities of the news also drew jihadi scorn. "Just look at those beer-drinking, hog-eating, incestuous, red-necks, uncle sams, house negros...all celebrating outside the White House," one commenter wrote. "It's like a holiday for them. Really a sad bunch of people. I'm just waiting for the Chocolaty Muslims, Talafies [fake Salafi Muslims], and those borderline murtad[apostates]/moderates to join the ugly bandwagon of cheering this so-called victory." Another opined, looking down on Americans: "The celebrations are amusing. Cheer all you want kuffar, you only have a limited amount of time in this dunya [present world] in which to do it. And then you will see the reality of this life."

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The Lies They Tell Us - By Mosharraf Zaidi

Mon, 02 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Foreign Policy - By Mosharraf Zaidi - May. 02 (News) - ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan — Three hours after U.S. President Barack Obama announced Osama bin Laden's death from the East Room of the White House, I found myself sitting in the Jadoon Shopping Plaza in Abbottabad, Pakistan -- the resort town where the killing

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How Goldman Sachs Created the Food Crisis

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Foreign Policy - By Frederick Kaufman - Apr. 30 (Opinion) - It took the brilliant minds of Goldman Sachs to realize the simple truth that nothing is more valuable than our daily bread. And where there's value, there's money to be made.

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Think Again: The Afghan Drug Trade

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Foreign Policy - By Jonathan Caulkins, Jonathan Kulick, Mark Kleinman - Apr. 01 (News Analysis) -

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Libya is not Rwanda

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Foreign Policy - By Paul D. Miller - Mar. 31 (Opinion) - Historical analogies are sloppy thinking. U.S. policymakers went to war in Korea and Vietnam because they wanted to avoid another Munich. Liberals believe that Iraq is another Vietnam. Paleoconservatives worry that Libya is another Iraq, while liberals fear it is another Rwanda. These are rhetorical shortcuts that partisans use to excuse themselves from having to think very carefully or learn the details of each new case. One hopes the strategists in the White House will resist that temptation, but judging from Obama's speech, they aren't.

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The Bahrain crisis and its regional dangers - Foreign Policy

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 01:29:00 -0700

Foreign Policy - Mar. 23 - USA TodayThe Bahrain crisis and its regional dangersForeign PolicyThe Bahrain situation is exposing long simmering tensions and rivalries between Saudi Arabia and Iran and carries the danger that it will trigger the next regional war. Such a scenario would likely draw in the United States at a time when its ...Analysis: Oil interests muted Bahrain criticismVancouver SunBahrain Relies on Old Playbook in Its CrackdownWall Street JournalIran 'can do little' after GCC sends troops to Bahrain say analystsThe NationalCNN (blog) -UPI.com -GulfNewsall 1,459 news articles »

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Peter King's Witch Hunt

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Foreign Policy - By Suhail A. Khan - Mar. 10 (News Analysis) - King has adopted an ominous tone for the proceedings, basing them on the premise that the Muslim American community is dangerously prone to radicalization and has been systematically uncooperative with law enforcement.

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Netizens Unite - An advocate for Washington's 'Internet Freedom' agenda has second thoughts.

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Foreign Policy - Feb. 23 (Opinion) -

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Intervening in the Libyan tragedy

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Foreign Policy - By Marc Lynch - Feb. 21 (Opinion) - The unfolding situation in Libya has been horrible to behold. No matter how many times we warn that dictators will do what they must to stay in power, it is still shocking to see the images of brutalized civilians which have been flooding al-Jazeera and circulating on the internet. We should not be fooled by Libya's geographic proximity to Egypt and Tunisia, or guided by the debates over how the United States could best help a peaceful protest movement achieve democratic change. The appropriate comparison is Bosnia or Kosovo, or even Rwanda where a massacre is unfolding on live television and the world is challenged to act. It is time for the United States, NATO, the United Nations and the Arab League to act forcefully to try to prevent the already bloody situation from degenerating into something much worse.

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In sharp reversal, U.S. agrees to rebuke Israel in Security Council

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Foreign Policy - By Colum Lynch - Feb. 17 (News) - The U.S. informed Arab governments Tuesday that it will support a U.N. Security Council statement reaffirming that the 15-nation body "does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity," a move aimed at avoiding the prospect of having to veto a stronger Palestinian resolution calling the settlements illegal.

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Game over: The chance for democracy in Egypt is lost

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Foreign Policy - By Robert Springborg - Feb. 02 (Opinion) - While much of American media has termed the events unfolding in Egypt today as "clashes between pro-government and opposition groups," this is not in fact what's happening on the street. The so-called "pro-government" forces are actually Mubarak's cleverly orchestrated goon squads dressed up as pro-Mubarak demonstrators to attack the protesters in Midan Tahrir, with the Army appearing to be a neutral force.

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Whispering at Autocrats

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Foreign Policy - By Tom Malinowski - Jan. 25 (Opinion) - Did the Wikileaked State Department cables that described Tunisia's deposed leader Zine el-Abedin Ben Ali as the head of a corrupt police state play any role in encouraging the democratic uprising against him -- and thus spark the wave of protests now spreading across Egypt? I asked our experts at Human Rights Watch to canvass their sources in the country, and the consensus was that while Tunisians didn't need American diplomats to tell them how bad their government was, the cables did have an impact.

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Unconventional Wisdom

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Foreign Policy - By Thomas Homer-Dixon, Anne Applebaum, Joseph S. Nye Jr., Daniel W. Drezner, Aluf Benn, Leslie H. Gelb, James K. Galbraith, Carl Pope, Immanuel Wallerstein, Nina Hachigian, Morton H. Halperin, Stephen Sestanovich - Jan. 06 (Special Report) - A special anniversary report challenging the world's most dangerous thinking.

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Thank God It's Over: The Top 25 Moments of 2010

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Foreign Policy - Dec. 28 (Editorial) - With earthquakes in Haiti and western China, floods in Pakistan, a volcanic eruption in Iceland, and wildfires in Russia, the Earth was intent on releasing a lot of pent-up anger in 2010. Tremors and eruptions -- along with the more basic elements of fire and water -- seemed to shape the past year's events even more than traditional foreign policy actors. Meanwhile, Europe struggled to regain its economic footing, China continued to rapidly grow its GDP, Middle East peace talks crumbled, and world leaders misbehaved (we're looking at you, Vladmir Putin and Silvio Berlusconi). But there were bright spots, too: A group of Chilean miners escaped after enduring two months trapped underground and long-suffering Burmese democratic activist Aung San Suu Kyi was released after spending nearly two decades in detention and under house arrest. Here are a few glimpses of 2010's international high- and lowlights.

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5 Ways to Win the War in Afghanistan

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Foreign Policy - By Andrew Exum - Dec. 16 (Opinion) - Although the United States and its allies have scored important tactical gains over the past 12 months -- decimating insurgent networks and securing once-violent districts in southern Afghanistan -- they have no clear plan to either defeat insurgent sanctuaries in Pakistan or address the corruption and predatory behavior of Afghanistan's political class, which threatens to undermine U.S. and allied military successes.

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How's That New World Order Working Out?

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Foreign Policy - By Parag Khanna - Nov. 29 (Opinion) - What a difference a couple of decades makes. A little over 20 years ago, then U.S. President George H.W. Bush -- who had just witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall and saw the Soviet Union disintegrating before his very eyes -- stood at the granite podium of the U.N. General Assembly in New York and proclaimed a "new world order," a U.S.-dominated international system "where the rule of law supplants the rule of the jungle." Two decades later, the "new new world order" we are in fact living looks almost nothing like what Bush -- and most Americans -- imagined or hoped.

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Global Aging: A gray tsunami is sweeping the planet

Sun, 21 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Foreign Policy - By Phillip Longman - Nov. 21 (News Analysis) - Those who predict a coming Asian Century have not come to terms with the region's approaching era of hyper-aging. Japan, whose "lost decade" began just as its labor force started to shrink in the late 1980s, now appears to be not an exception, but a vanguard of Asian demographics. South Korea and Taiwan, with some of the lowest birth rates of any major country, will be losing population within 15 years. ... China, for now, continues to enjoy the economic benefits associated with the early phase of birth-rate decline, when a society has fewer children to support and more available female labor for the workforce. But with its stringent one-child policy and exceptionally low birth rate, China is rapidly evolving into what demographers call a "4-2-1" society, in which one child becomes responsible for supporting two parents and four grandparents.

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When ignorance becomes a movement

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Foreign Policy - By David Rothkopf - Nov. 17 (Opinion) - Be afraid. Be very afraid. Mainstream, rock-ribbed, you-can't-make-me-flinch Republicans are. One former leader of the party I spoke with the other night said, "We've never seen anything like them. The Gingrich 'Contract with America' revolution was mild by comparison." Representative Bob Inglis, attacking the play to the lowest-common I.Q. of the base, said, "We're getting what we deserve."

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Mainstreaming Hate

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Foreign Policy - By Ferry Biedermann - Oct. 04 (Special Report) - Geert Wilders is slowly but surely making Islamophobia an accepted element of political rhetoric in the Netherlands -- and he's got his eyes on the United States, next.

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Clinton presses Pakistan to raise taxes on wealthy | The Cable

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Foreign Policy - By Josh Rogin - Sep. 28 (News Report) - "This is one of my pet peeves: Countries that will not tax their elites but expect us to come in and help them serve their people are just not going to get the kind of help from us that they have been getting,"

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Why Doesn't the World Care About Pakistanis?

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Foreign Policy - By Mosharraf Zaidi - Aug. 23 (Comment) - The United Nations has characterized the destruction caused by the floods in Pakistan as greater than the damage from the 2004 Asian tsunami, the 2005 Pakistan earthquake, and the 2010 Haiti earthquake combined. Yet nearly three weeks since the floods began, aid is trickling in slowly and reluctantly to the United Nations, NGOs, and the Pakistani government.

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