Foreign Policy Roundtable

Kim Jong Il, The Man With The Golden Nukes

Foreign Policy Roundtable | Posted 05.25.2011

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This is no evil genius from a James Bond movie. Kim just may be an evil genius, period. The Kim family's rule has lasted so long because son, like father, is calculating and pragmatic.

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Afghanistan: Echoes of Vietnam

Foreign Policy Roundtable | Posted 05.25.2011

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Now that U.S. involvement in Iraq has finally begun to require fewer resources, Afghanistan is the new focus of anti-war sentiment, and increasingly Obama's critics are drawing on the analogy of Vietnam.

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