2009's Top News Stories
If you're anything like me -- living in this mad, mad world of information overload -- it may be difficult to look back at 2009 and remember the big news stories that defined this year.
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Magi 2009
O. Henry meets Obama. To see more of August J. Pollak's cartoon "Some Guy With a Website," check out the archive....
Keeping the Wheels on the Obama Presidency
Because he cannot provide peace and prosperity, Obama needs to pass some meaningful legislation to demonstrate that he is doing something positive. Just getting a health care bill passed will mean nothing to many Americans.
Obama, Nobel, and Realpolitik
Is President Obama's lack of reference to Carter and Bunch surprising? Not really, considering his defense in Oslo of "just war."
Tony Blair Must Be Charged With War Crimes
Tony Blair's stunning admission to the BBC that he would have invaded Iraq regardless of whether there had been Weapons of Mass Destruction revealed t...
Army Record Suicide Rate Continues, and Will Continue for Some Time
The Army reported that suicides are yet again at an all time high. This isn't to say every soldier deployed frequently and for long periods will kill him or herself. But there's a "significant link" for many of those who do.
US Swagger Equals Foreign Policy Disaster
If Iran offers to swap its low-enriched uranium for higher grade uranium, does the US have the right to dismiss it because it doesn't meet our conditions?
Iraq hits Black Gold
The timing could not have been worse. On Tuesday afternoon, set against the sleek backdrop of a London hotel, the vice-chairman of Iraq's oil and gas ...
Old U.S. Allies Are Hedging Their Strategic Bets
Washington should welcome the steps towards strategic adjustment being pursued by its allies and refrain from any attempt to force them to re-embrace to the old subservient approach towards the United States.
Sunday Roundup
This week, in accepting his Nobel Peace Prize, President Obama strenuously argued that "as a head of state sworn to protect and defend my nation" he "cannot stand idle in the face of threats to the American people." I couldn't agree more. But what exactly are the threats to the American people coming from Afghanistan? The Taliban? Or the 100 al-Qaeda members who didn't get the "we're moving to Pakistan" memo? In his 2002 denunciation of the war in Iraq, Obama said: "I don't oppose all wars...What I am opposed to is a dumb war." Well, escalating troop levels to 100,000 and spending $30 billion a year to take on 100 terrorists -- that's 1,000 U.S. soldiers and $300 million for every one al-Qaeda fighter -- while the real threats lie elsewhere strikes me as the gold standard of a dumb, immoral war of choice.
Bob Cushman of The Cushman Group: A Serious Commitment to Humanity
"American philanthropy is a model for the rest of the world. We should take great pride in their dedication to important causes and support them with...
Obama Can Help the World's Women
In accepting the Nobel, Obama must spearhead a bold and unprecedented initiative aimed at one of the most pervasive human rights violations of the 21st century: violence against women and girls worldwide.
America Occupies Itself
With the conspicuous exception of the Marshall Plan. America has basically used the past 65 years to forgo love and make war. Depending on your politi...
The Blackness of Blackwater
The good news for Blackwater fans is that things are not as bleak as they appear. A report found that Blackwater guards were involved in almost 200 shootings in Iraq between 2005 and 2007.
Obama's Lincolnesque Nobel Peace Prize
Lincoln is Obama's professed ideal. We remember Lincoln today from civics lessons and the monument in Washington, but the historical reality is that he was both soaring idealist and ruthless pragmatist.
Can Arlen Specter End the War in Afghanistan?
Who knew Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter would emerge as one of the most vocal opponents in the Senate of the President's military escalation in Afghanistan?
Key Oil Auction in Iraq Today: Foreign Companies Could Produce Majority of Iraq's Oil for First Time in 35 Years
Will Bush's Oil Agenda Lock Obama Further Into War? Today and tomorrow in Baghdad, the world's last great oil bonanza opens to the highest bidders. T...
Top 6 Obama Quotes: Guide to his Global, Nobel Journey
"If you can tell people, 'We have a president in the White House who still has a grandmother living in a hut on the shores of Lake Victoria and ha...
Chatting with UNICEF's Director Ann Veneman
I met UNICEF's executive director Ann M. Veneman recently at Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden's World Childhood Foundation luncheon at the United Na...
The Scourge of Suicide Terror: When will we ever learn?
Beyond the scorecard coverage and template denunciations from the State Department and the Foreign Office, what can be done? To win the war against terrorism we will also have to win the war for the minds and hearts of terror's potential recruits.
ReThink Review: Brothers -- the War Drama Curse Continues
So far, Hollywood's attempts at making movies about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been failures, usually critically but always financially.
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